Software Engineer - Environment Platform

The Role

If you joined us today, you get to author the strategy by which each of Palantir’s software platforms – Foundry, Gotham, Apollo – achieves full containerization across an intimidating diversity of infrastructure types. Tomorrow, you get to do the same for Palantir’s ever expanding customer community. You will drive those goals by building elegant, robust APIs powered by K8s controllers which bridge the gap between a raw Kubernetes cluster and a fully‑featured, infrastructure‑agnostic runtime that can scale to the operational needs of hundreds of specialized microservices. Joining you on that journey is a highly motivated team with a diverse group of backgrounds and skillsets, brimming with ambition.

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.
• Clear and concise verbal and written communications.
• A focus on impact and an ability to articulate the value your work provides.

Qualifications

• 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.
• 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.

Salary

The estimated salary range for this position is $135,000 – $200,000 per year. Total compensation may also include restricted stock units, signing bonus, and other potential future incentives. The estimate excludes the value of any potential sign‑on bonus, benefits offered, and the potential future value of any long‑term incentives.

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.
• Paid time off not accrual based.
• Two weeks paid time off built into the end of each year (subject to team and business needs).
• Ten 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 backup 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 401(k) plan.

Workplace

In keeping consistent with Palantir’s 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 state in which you are employed. If the posting is specified as Onsite, you are required to work from an office.

Life at Palantir

We want every Palantirian to achieve their best outcomes, that’s why we celebrate individuals’ strengths, skills, and interests, from your first interview to your long‑term 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 we’re investing in our community.

Equal Opportunity

Palantir is an Equal Opportunity Employer for all, including but not limited to Veterans and those with disabilities. Palantir is 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.