Backend Software Engineer – Infrastructure

Overview

As a Backend Software Engineer at Palantir, you build scalable data infrastructure and APIs that power Foundry and Gotham. You work across product lifecycles with cross-functional teams to turn complex data problems into reliable platform capabilities. You’ll contribute to high-performance, secure systems that support important institutions worldwide. This role offers hands-on ownership, exposure to diverse technologies, and opportunities to grow as a technical contributor and engineering leader.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid work options
• opportunity for in-person collaboration
• focus on health and well-being
• accommodations available
• growth and learning culture

Responsibilities

• Build a performant search and indexing system for permissioned data
• Contribute to open-source data processing libraries and apply innovations for performance gains
• Develop distributed systems to power large-scale compute workloads and manage container orchestration
• Design architecture and APIs to guide developers along a simple, effective path
• Implement tracing and performance observability in high-scale microservices
• Create reliable storage, authentication, and asset-serving systems to support product teams
• Automate deployment, management, and operations of distributed systems (e.g., Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Kafka) across environments

Key requirements

• 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 and cloud infrastructure
• Strong written and verbal communication with ability to iterate with teammates and uphold quality

• collaboration and empathy with diverse stakeholders
• ability to learn new technologies quickly
• strong focus on quality and defensive coding
• Java
• C++
• Python

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