Forward Deployed Site Reliability Engineer - US Government

Palantir; Washington; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Palantir is seeking Forward Deployed Site Reliability Engineers to build, operate, and maintain high‑performance, scalable services for production infrastructure, primarily across on‑prem environments for the US Government.

You will travel to client locations, be the expert for Palantir's infrastructure, help partner teams configure hardware and network for reliable software operation, and collaborate with engineers to design scalable systems.

Responsibilities

• Build, operate, and maintain high-performance, scalable, and reliable services for production infrastructure.
• Collaborate with engineers to design sensible, scalable systems for production.
• Travel to various locations to configure hardware and networks for reliable software operation.

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

We're looking for Forward Deployed Site Reliability Engineers who can help us build, operate, and maintain high-performance, scalable, and reliable services for our production infrastructure, primarily across on-prem environments for the US Government. Forward Deployed Site Reliability Engineers combine engineering experience and an innate drive to improve existing systems and processes, with the creativity to develop novel solutions to evolving challenges. Our team strives to automate processes wherever possible, using whichever tools are best for the job. You'll travel to various locations where you will be the expert for Palantir's infrastructure, helping partner teams build & configure their hardware and network for software to operate reliably within.

We strongly believe in engineering teams being responsible for the operations of their services in production. In this role, you'll work closely with engineers to advocate and participate in sensible, scalable, systems design and share responsibility with them in diagnosing, resolving, and preventing production issues.