Backend Software Engineer - Infrastructure

Palantir Technologies • New York, NY • 1w ago

A World-Changing CompanyPalantir 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.The RoleBackend Software Engineers at Palantir build software at scale to transform how organizations use data. Our Software Engineers are involved throughout the product lifecycle, from idea generation, design, prototyping, and production delivery. You will collaborate closely with technical and non-technical teammates to understand our customers' problems and build products that solve them. We encourage movement across teams to share @context, skills, and experience, so you'll learn about many different technologies and aspects of each product. Engineers work autonomously and make decisions independently, within a community that will support and challenge you as you grow and develop, becoming a strong technical contributor and engineering leader.Our Product Development organization is made up of small teams of Software Engineers. Each team focuses on a specific aspect of a product. Our infrastructure teams are responsible for the lowest layers of our software stack, often focused on database technologies, distributed systems, large scale data systems, security, and application infrastructure. As a Software Engineer on infrastructure, you'll contribute high-quality code to underpin Palantir Foundry and Gotham with performant, secure, and scalable building blocks, enabling products deployed to the most important institutions in the public and private sector. You'll build the foundational capabilities that power our products used by research scientists, aerospace engineers, intelligence analysts, and economic forecasters, in countries around the world.We're hiring engineers who are passionate about solving real-world problems and empowering developers and end-users to do their work optimally. If you're motivated to develop reliable, performant, scalable systems and design robust APIs and primitives, below are some examples of the @types of product work you'd get to do in this role:Core Responsibilities Building a performant search and indexing ecosystem for complex granularly permissioned dataContributing to open-source data processing libraries, integrating the latest innovations to achieve performance gainsBuilding the distributed systems that power large scale compute workloads, orchestrating and efficiently scheduling hundreds of thousands of containers every hourDesigning architecture and opinionated APIs to keep application developers on the happy pathTracing and performance observability in high scale distributed microservice architecturesBuilding 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 systemsAutomating the deployment, management, and operations of complex distributed systems like Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Kafka, and more across different environmentsTechnologies We Use Different backend languages, including Java, Rust, and GoOpen-source technologies like Cassandra, ElasticSearch, Spark, Kafka, Kubernetes, FlinkIndustry-standard build tooling, including Gradle and GitHubWhat We ValueDemonstrated ability to collaborate and empathize with a variety of individuals. Able to iterate with users and non-technical stakeholders and understand how technical decisions impact them.Ability to learn new technology and concepts, ev

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