Backend Software Engineer
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2 days ago
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Job Summary
A World-Changing Company
Palantir builds the worlds 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 Role
Backend 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 youll 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 youll 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. Youll build the foundational capabilities that power our products used by research scientists aerospace engineers intelligence analysts and economic forecasters in countries around the world.
Were hiring engineers who are passionate about solving real-world problems and empowering developers and end-users to do their work optimally. If youre motivated to develop reliable performant scalable systems and design robust APIs and primitives below are some examples of the types of product work youd get to do in this role:
Core Responsibilities
- Building performant search and indexing ecosystem for complex granularly permissioned of data
- Contributing to open-source data processing libraries integrating the latest innovations to achieve performance gains
- Building the distributed systems that power large scale compute workloads orchestrating and efficiently scheduling hundreds of thousands of containers every hour
- Designing architecture and opinionated APIs to keep application developers on the happy path
- Tracing and performance observability in high scale distributed microservice architectures
- Building 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 systems
- Automating the deployment management and operations of complex distributed systems like Cassandra Elasticsearch Kafka and more across different environments
Technologies we use:
- Different backend languages including Java Rust and Go
- Open-source technologies like Cassandra ElasticSearch Spark Kafka Kubernetes Flink
- Industry-standard build tooling including Gradle and GitHub
What We Value
- Demonstrated 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 even without in-depth experience. Experience developing and managing highly-available distributed systems is beneficial but not required.
- Bias towards quality and thoughtful about edge cases (anything that can go wrong will go wrong); writes code that is defensive against all possibilities.
- Builds solutions and APIs with users in mind while maintaining a high engineering bar. Seeks to centralize and abstract complexity away from our users in order to expose simple powerful APIs for consumers.
What We Require
- Engineering background in Computer Science Mathematics Software Engineering Physics or similar field.
- Strong coding skills with demonstrated proficiency in programming languages such as Java C Python Rust or similar languages.
- Familiarity with storage and data processing systems cloud infrastructure and other technical tools.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to iterate quickly with teammates incorporating feedback and holding a high bar for quality.
Palantir is particularly interested in applicants who have a current right to work in Singapore and we encourage Singapore citizens to apply.
Life at Palantir
We want every Palantirian to achieve their best outcomes thats why we celebrate individuals strengths skills and interests from your first interview to your longterm growth rather than rely on traditional career ladders. Paying attention to the needs of our community enables us to optimize our opportunities to grow and helps ensure many pathways to success at Palantir. Promoting health and well-being across all areas of Palantirians lives is just one of the ways were investing in our community. Learn more at Life at Palantir and note that our offerings may vary by region.
In keeping consistent with Palantirs values and culture we believe employees are better together and in-person work affords the opportunity for more creative outcomes. Therefore we encourage employees to work from our offices to foster connectivity and innovation. Many teams do offer hybrid options (WFH a day or two a week) allowing our employees to strike the right trade-off for their personal productivity. Based on business need there are a few roles that allow for Remote work on an exceptional basis. If you are applying for one of these roles you must work from the city and or country in which you are employed. If the posting is specified as Onsite you are required to work from an office.
If you want to empower the worlds most important institutions you belong here. Palantir values excellence regardless of background. We are committed to making the application and hiring process accessible to everyone and will provide a reasonable accommodation for those living with a disability. If you need an accommodation for the application or hiring process please reach out and let us know how we can help.
Required Experience:
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Key Skills
- Business Intelligence
- Bidding
- Accounts Assistant Credit Control
- Account Development
- Content Development
- Lab Testing
About Company
We build software that empowers organizations to effectively integrate their data, decisions, and operations.
