Backend Software Engineer - Infrastructure
Description For Backend Software Engineer - Infrastructure
Palantir Technologies is seeking a Backend Software Engineer - Infrastructure to join their team in New York City. As a world-changing company, Palantir builds software for data-driven decisions and operations, empowering partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, and locate missing children.
In this role, you'll be part of the Product Development organization, working on infrastructure teams responsible for the lowest layers of Palantir's software stack. You'll contribute high-quality code to underpin Palantir Foundry and Gotham with performant, secure, and scalable building blocks. Your work will enable products used by research scientists, aerospace engineers, intelligence analysts, and economic forecasters worldwide.
Key responsibilities include building performant search and indexing ecosystems, contributing to open-source data processing libraries, designing distributed systems for large-scale compute workloads, and creating architecture and APIs for application developers. You'll work with technologies like Java, Rust, Go, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, Spark, Kafka, and Kubernetes.
Palantir values collaboration, empathy, and the ability to learn new technologies quickly. They offer a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, paid parental leave, and unlimited PTO. The estimated salary range for this position is $135,000 - $200,000/year, with additional compensation potentially including Restricted Stock units and sign-on bonuses.
Join Palantir to solve real-world problems and empower developers and end-users in their critical work across various sectors. Apply now to be part of this innovative and impactful team!
Responsibilities For Backend Software Engineer - Infrastructure
- Building a performant search and indexing ecosystem for complex granularly permissioned 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
Requirements For Backend Software Engineer - Infrastructure
- 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
Benefits For Backend Software Engineer - Infrastructure
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Life and disability coverage
- Paid leave for new parents and emergency back-up care for all parents
- Family planning support, including fertility, adoption, and surrogacy assistance
- Stipend to help with expenses that come with a new child
- Commuter benefits
- Relocation assistance
- Unlimited paid time off
- 2 weeks paid time off built into the end of each year
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