Backend Engineer: Scale Data Systems & APIs

Palantir; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Palantir builds the world's leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. Backend Software Engineers at Palantir build software at scale to transform how organisations use data.

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 you'll learn about many different technologies and aspects of each product.

Qualifications

• Experience building distributed backend services at scale.
• Strong understanding of API design and security practices.
• Ability to collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable backend services and data processing components.
• Contribute to robust APIs and system primitives for product teams.
• Collaborate with data scientists, product managers and frontend engineers.
• Maintain high standards for reliability, performance, and observability.

Skills

Java

C++

Python

Rust

Go

Education

CS/Engineering degree

Tools

Cassandra

Elasticsearch

Spark

Kafka

Kubernetes

Flink

Job description

Palantir builds the world's leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. Backend Software Engineers at Palantir build software at scale to transform how organisations use data.

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 you'll learn about many different technologies and aspects of each product.