Product Reliability Engineer - Defense

Palantir; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 96,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401k plan

Take what you need paid time off

Job summary

Palantir is seeking a Product Reliability Engineer in Washington, DC to ensure the health and performance of its services. In this role, you'll tackle critical customer issues, improve codebases, and enhance product stability by introducing observability into systems.

The ideal candidate will have a strong engineering background and experience with troubleshooting complex systems. Palantir offers competitive salaries and comprehensive benefits like flexible time off and insurance coverage.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to independently troubleshoot issues using observability tools.
• Experience coding in backend languages such as Java.
• Confidence in making data-driven decisions.

Responsibilities

• Continuously improve metrics and monitoring tools.
• Participate in on-call rotations for service reliability.
• Diagnose and resolve issues to improve overall performance.

Skills

Troubleshooting complex issues

Ownership of service reliability

Familiarity with Prometheus

Experience with Java, Go, and web technologies

Data-driven decision making

Strong communication skills

Education

Engineering background in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Observability tools

Monitoring tools

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

Product Reliability Engineers (PREs) are responsible for the health, performance, and stability of the services that power services at Palantir. PREs take ownership over the entire end-to-end cycle of service reliability, from responding to outages to improving codebases and building lasting solutions.

You will tackle critical issues for key customers, introduce observability into complex systems, address tech debt in essential codebases, and inform strategic investments in core products. We are looking for engineers who enjoy deep-dive troubleshooting, feel strong ownership over the problems they encounter, and recognize the urgency of customer-facing outages.

PREs spend the majority of their time on forward-looking product work, including but not limited to infrastructure migrations, product contributions to improve stability and observability, and codebase enhancements that increase resilience. During periodic on-call shifts, we respond to automated alerts, investigate issues reported by customers, and share technical expertise with adjacent product teams.

Whatever the technical issue or question about your service is, you'll play a central and critical role in resolving it, seeking not just a one-time fix, but a permanent solution. We provide new team members with an experienced mentor and a clear onboarding framework to set them up for success in the role.

Responsibilities

• Continuously invest in documentation, metrics, monitors and other troubleshooting tools
• Participate in on-call rotations during business hours and occasional weekends. This is a challenging yet rewarding opportunity to help remediate the most pressing issues across the Palantir fleet.
• Diagnose, resolve, and prevent issues encountered in the field. Deliver end-to-end improvements to core products based on these issues you encounter in the field.
• Improve observability by refactoring codepaths and introducing telemetry
• Identify and implement data-driven opportunities for improved service resilience
• Develop strategic opinions on stability investments and inform the vision for long-term product stability
• Comfortable with and curious about large scale production systems and technologies. For example, load balancing, monitoring, distributed systems, and configuration management.
• Confidence in troubleshooting complex issues independently using observability tools and stack traces
• Familiarity with monitoring tools such as Prometheus and health checks
• Experience coding with Java, Go and/or web technologies (e.g. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python/Ruby, Django/Flask/Ruby on Rails, etc.) is a plus
• Track record of identifying bugs in codebases and contributing fixes leading to long term service stability
• Demonstrated ability making data-driven decisions and engaging with stakeholders on strategy
• Engineering background in Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics or similar field
• Ability to work with a high degree of ownership and a strong sense of urgency in a dynamic environment
• Experience producing code in backend languages such as Java, as part of a past role or personal projects
• Familiarity with storage and data processing systems and cloud infrastructure
• Strong written and verbal communication and ability to iterate quickly with teammates and incorporate feedback
• Eligibility and willingness to obtain a US Security clearance

Salary

The estimated salary range for this position is $96,000 - $140,000/year. Total compensation for this position may also include Restricted Stock units, sign‑on bonus and other potential future incentives. Further note that total compensation for this position will be determined by each individual's relevant qualifications, work experience, skills, and other factors. This estimate excludes the value of any potential sign‑on bonus; the value of any benefits offered; and the potential future value of any long‑term incentives.

Benefits

• Employees (and their eligible dependents) can enroll in medical, dental, and vision insurance as well as voluntary life insurance
• Employees are automatically covered by Palantir’s basic life, AD&D and disability insurance
• Commuter benefits
• Take what you need paid time off, not accrual based
• 2 weeks paid time off built into the end of each year (subject to team and business needs)
• 10 paid holidays throughout the calendar year
• Supportive leave of absence program including time off for military service and medical events
• Paid leave for new parents and subsidized back‑up care for all parents
• Fertility and family building benefits including but not limited to adoption, surrogacy, and preservation
• Stipend to help with expenses that come with a new child
• Employees can enroll in Palantir’s 401k plan

Work Location

Palantir encourages employees to work from our offices to foster connectivity and innovation. Many teams do offer hybrid options (WFH a day or two a week). Based on business need, there are a few roles that allow for “Remote” work on an exceptional basis. If applying for one of these roles, you must work from the state in which you are employed. If the posting is specified as Onsite, you are required to work from an office.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Palantir values excellence regardless of background. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer for all, including but not limited to Veterans and those with disabilities. Palantir is 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 contact us and let us know how we can help.