# Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer

**Company**: Palantir
**Location**: San Francisco
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $120,000 - $180,000 per year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://jobs.lever.co/palantir/72e51928-07f0-4be0-aae5-0ae6956a4846
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_b596b584-dc0

## Description

We're looking for Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineers who can help us build, operate, and maintain high-performance, scalable, and reliable services for Palantir platforms, products, and deployments.

As a Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer, every day is different! You will be developing software and providing high-quality support for software systems that are critical to solving our government's greatest challenges.

## Core Responsibilities

- Handle support and operations of Palantir software, including monitoring and alerting, configuration management, and upgrades.

- Deploy new Palantir products at customer deployments and perform migrations to the latest infrastructure types.

- Debug, improve, and optimise Palantir's services and infrastructure with a focus on long-term reliability and scalability.

- Reduce manual operations and automate workflows, processes, and/or runbooks where possible.

- Provide technical troubleshooting support for production issues, ensuring timely resolution and minimal impact on operations. Participate in a support on-call schedule.

- Develop novel solutions in Palantir's Foundry and Apollo platforms to solve infrastructure challenges.

## What We Value

- Confidence in troubleshooting complex systems issues independently using observability tools and service logs.

- Ability to identify and automate highly manual tasks, driving ongoing improvements within and across teams.

- Comfort with large scale production systems and technologies - for example, load balancing, monitoring, distributed systems, or configuration management.

- Proficiency with programming languages such as Java, Python, Bash, JavaScript, Go or similar languages and be comfortable coding and/or utilising tooling built in these languages.

- Ability to work with a high level of autonomy and responsibility in a rapidly changing environment with dynamic objectives and iteration with users.

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively in multi-functional teams.

## What We Require

- Strong engineering background, preferred in fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, and Data Science.

- Strong coder with shown proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Go, Python, JavaScript, or similar languages.

- Security clearance or the ability to obtain a clearance.

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Python
- Bash
- JavaScript
- Go
- configuration management
- load balancing
- monitoring
- distributed systems