Software Engineer - Environment Platform

Summary

Palantir Technologies is a leading company that builds software for data-driven decisions and operations. The role involves authoring strategies for containerization across various infrastructures and developing robust APIs that support operational needs for numerous microservices.

Responsibilities

• Engage with and internalize Palantir’s infrastructure strategy and the needs of your team’s customer base
• Deeply understand and leverage K8s primitives, the broader OSS ecosystem around K8s, and highly technical service lifecycle semantics to solve business critical problems at scale
• Build and evolve the APIs through which in-house as well as third-party software developers interact with K8s to satisfy their runtime needs, cleanly abstracting away the complex distributed systems powering them
• Work closely with your team and stakeholders to enable sustainable and timely delivery of technical solutions to address business needs
• Champion a long-term tech roadmap to reduce operational burden, ensure scalability, reduce risk, and strive for step-changes whenever possible

Skills

• 3+ years of professional software development experience
• 1+ years of experience contributing to the system design or architecture (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
• 1+ years of experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
• Strong coding skills in Go, Java, or equivalent
• Experience designing, building, and operating high-scale observability or infrastructure systems
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Clear and concise verbal and written communications
• A focus on impact and an ability to articulate the value your work provides
• Experience developing and managing highly-available distributed systems
• Passion for designing thoughtful and robust APIs
• Deep familiarity with K8s, and the broader ecosystem of software around K8s

Qualifications

Must Haves

• 3+ years of professional software development experience
• 1+ years of experience contributing to the system design or architecture (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
• 1+ years of experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
• Strong coding skills in Go, Java, or equivalent
• Experience designing, building, and operating high-scale observability or infrastructure systems
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Nice to Haves

• Clear and concise verbal and written communications
• A focus on impact and an ability to articulate the value your work provides
• Experience developing and managing highly-available distributed systems
• Passion for designing thoughtful and robust APIs
• Deep familiarity with K8s, and the broader ecosystem of software around K8s

Benefits

• Employees (and their eligible dependents) can enroll in medical, dental, and vision insurance as well as voluntary life insurance
• Employees are automatically covered by Palantir’s basic life, AD&D and disability insurance
• Commuter benefits
• Relocation assistance
• Take what you need paid time off, not accrual based
• 2 weeks paid time off built into the end of each year (subject to team and business needs)
• 10 paid holidays throughout the calendar year
• Supportive leave of absence program including time off for military service and medical events
• Paid leave for new parents and subsidized back-up care for all parents
• Fertility and family building benefits including but not limited to adoption, surrogacy, and preservation
• Stipend to help with expenses that come with a new child
• Employees can enroll in Palantir’s 401k plan
• Restricted Stock units
• Sign-on bonus
• Other potential future incentives