Software Engineer - Environment Platform

Palantir Technologies; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software firm in the City of London is looking for a Software Engineer to author strategy for containerization and develop robust APIs powered by Kubernetes. The ideal candidate will have 3+ years of software development experience and a passion for building distributed systems. This role offers a hybrid working model with opportunities for personal growth.

Benefits

Opportunities for hybrid work

Investment in employee well-being

Focus on personal growth and strengths

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• 1+ years of experience contributing to system design or architecture.
• 1+ years of experience as a mentor or tech lead.

Responsibilities

• Engage with Palantir’s infrastructure strategy and team’s customer needs.
• Build and evolve the APIs for third-party software developers interfacing with K8s.
• Champion a long-term tech roadmap to reduce operational burden and risk.

Skills

Clear and concise verbal and written communications

Experience developing and managing highly-available distributed systems

Passion for designing thoughtful and robust APIs

Deep familiarity with K8s and the broader ecosystem around K8s

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Go

Java

Job description

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.

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 100s of specialised microservices. Joining you on that journey is a highly motivated team with a diverse group of backgrounds and skillsets, brimming with ambition.

Core Responsibilities

• Engage with and internalise 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.

What We Value

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

What We Require

• 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.

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 longterm 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. Learn more at Life at Palantir and note that our offerings may vary by region.

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 city and or country in which you are employed. If the posting is specified as Onsite, you are required to work from an office.

If you want to empower the world's most important institutions, you belong here. Palantir values excellence regardless of background. 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.