Backend Software Engineer - Infrastructure, Foundations

Palantir builds the world's leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more.

As a Backend Software Engineer at Palantir, you will build software at scale to transform how organisations use data. You will collaborate closely with technical and non-technical teammates to understand our customers' problems and build products that solve them.

Core Responsibilities

• Building a performant search and indexing ecosystem for complex granularly permissioned data
• Contributing to open-source data processing libraries, integrating the latest innovations to achieve performance gains
• Building the distributed systems that power large scale compute workloads, orchestrating and efficiently scheduling hundreds of thousands of containers every hour
• Designing architecture and opinionated APIs to keep application developers on the happy path
• Tracing and performance observability in high scale distributed microservice architectures
• Building reliant, performant, and scalable systems for storage, auth, or asset serving to enable other product teams to build robust applications without deep domain expertise in the underlying systems
• Automating the deployment, management, and operations of complex distributed systems like Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Kafka, and more across different environments

Technologies We Use

• Different backend languages, including Java, Rust, and Go
• Open-source technologies like Cassandra, ElasticSearch, Spark, Kafka, Kubernetes, Flink
• Industry-standard build tooling, including Gradle and GitHub

What We Value

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and empathise with a variety of individuals
• Ability to learn new technology and concepts, even without in-depth experience
• Bias towards quality and thoughtful about edge cases
• Builds solutions and APIs with users in mind while maintaining a high engineering bar

What We Require

• Engineering background in Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics or similar field
• Strong coding skills with demonstrated proficiency in programming languages, such as Java, C++, Python, Rust, or similar languages
• Familiarity with storage and data processing systems, cloud infrastructure, and other technical tools
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to iterate quickly with teammates, incorporating feedback and holding a high bar for quality