# Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer

**Company**: Palantir
**Location**: Palo Alto
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $135,000 - $200,000/year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://jobs.lever.co/palantir/74748e0e-a0bc-4c53-a636-ef14e36d9b5e?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## 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.

Your responsibilities will include:

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

- Deploying new Palantir products at customer deployments and performing migrations to the latest infrastructure types

- Debugging, improving, and optimizing Palantir's services and infrastructure with a focus on long-term reliability and scalability

- Reducing manual operations and automating workflows, processes, and/or runbooks where possible

- Providing technical troubleshooting support for production issues, ensuring timely resolution and minimal impact on operations

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, such as load balancing, monitoring, distributed systems, or configuration management

- Proficiency with programming languages such as Java, Python, Bash, JavaScript, Go, or similar languages

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

We require:

- A strong engineering background, preferably in fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, and Data Science

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

- An active US Security Clearance at or above the Top Secret level

Additional Information: The estimated salary range for this position is estimated to be $135,000 - $200,000/year. Total compensation for this position may also include Restricted Stock units, sign-on bonus, and other potential future incentives.

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Python
- Bash
- JavaScript
- Go
- Load Balancing
- Monitoring
- Distributed Systems
- Configuration Management

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