Backend Systems Engineer: Scalable Data & APIs

PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Palantir Technologies Singapore PTE. LTD. is seeking Backend Software Engineers to build scalable data-powered software for global institutions. You will work across the product lifecycle, collaborating with technical and non-technical teammates to solve real-world problems and deliver robust APIs and services.

We value engineers who can learn quickly, work independently when needed, and contribute to high‑quality, highly available distributed systems. Hybrid options available in Singapore.

Qualifications

• Engineering background in CS, Math, Software Engineering, Physics or similar field.
• Strong coding skills in Java, C++, Python, Rust, or similar languages.
• Familiarity with storage and data processing systems, cloud infrastructure, and other technical tools.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to iterate quickly with teammates.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Java

C++

Python

Rust

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Education

Engineering degree (CS/SE)

Tools

Cassandra

Elasticsearch

Spark

Kafka

Kubernetes

Job description

Palantir Technologies Singapore PTE. LTD. is seeking Backend Software Engineers to build scalable data-powered software for global institutions. You will work across the product lifecycle, collaborating with technical and non-technical teammates to solve real-world problems and deliver robust APIs and services.

We value engineers who can learn quickly, work independently when needed, and contribute to high‑quality, highly available distributed systems. Hybrid options available in Singapore.