Software Engineer - Environment Platform

Palantir Technologies; Camden Town; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A global software company in Camden Town is seeking an experienced software developer to design and build APIs for Kubernetes platforms. You will lead a motivated team and engage with infrastructure challenges while championing a long-term tech roadmap. The ideal candidate has 3+ years in software development and experience in system design. This role emphasizes in-person collaboration but may offer hybrid options based on business needs.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• 1+ year of experience in system design or architecture.
• 1+ year of experience in a mentoring or tech lead role.

Responsibilities

• Engage with and internalize infrastructure strategy and customer needs.
• Understand and leverage K8s primitives and OSS ecosystem.
• Build and evolve APIs for developers interacting with K8s.

Skills

High availability in distributed systems

API design

K8s familiarity

Strong coding skills in Go or Java

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

Overview

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.
• Effective verbal and written communication.

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+ year of experience contributing to the system design or architecture (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems.
• 1+ year 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.

About Palantir and Our Approach

A World-Changing Company. Palantir builds the world's leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. 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. In keeping consistent with Palantir's values and culture, we believe employees are "better together" and encourage in-person work to foster connectivity and innovation. Some roles offer hybrid or remote options based on business needs. If you are applying for a remote role, you must work from the city or country of your employment. If the posting is Onsite, you are required to work from an office.