Senior Backend Software Engineer – Infrastructure

Overview

As a Software Engineer at Palantir, you contribute to building scalable infrastructure that underpins Palantir Foundry and Gotham. You work across the product lifecycle, collaborating with cross-functional teammates to solve real-world data challenges for leading institutions. You’ll shape distributed systems, APIs, and performance tooling to enable reliable, secure data-driven products. This role offers impact at scale, opportunities to work across teams, and a path to technical leadership in a high-performance environment.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid work options
• in-person collaboration emphasis
• strong growth culture
• supportive community
• focus on health and wellbeing
• career development opportunities

Responsibilities

• Build a performant search and indexing ecosystem for complex granularly permissioned data
• Contribute to open-source data processing libraries and integrate innovations for performance
• Develop distributed systems to power large-scale compute workloads and manage container orchestration
• Design architecture and APIs to keep developers on the happy path
• Implement tracing and performance observability in high-scale microservices
• Create reliable and scalable storage/auth/asset serving systems for product teams
• Automate deployment, management, and operations of distributed systems (e.g., Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Kafka) across environments

Key requirements

• 6+ years of experience designing, building, and operating scalable infrastructure systems in production
• Engineering background in Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics or similar field
• Strong coding skills in Java, C++, Python, Rust, or similar languages
• Familiarity with storage and data processing systems, cloud infrastructure, and related tools
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with ability to iterate with teammates and maintain high quality

• collaboration and empathy with diverse stakeholders
• ability to learn new technologies quickly
• quality-focused mindset
• Java
• Rust
• Go

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