Backend Software Engineer - Infrastructure, FoundationsActive

The opportunity

A World-Changing Company Palantir 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.

What you'll do

  • 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

What they're looking for

  • Automating the deployment, management, and operations of complex distributed: systems like Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Kafka, and more across different environments
  • 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