Software Engineer, New Grad - Infrastructure

Palantir Technologies; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 145,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) employer match

Paid time off including flexible days and 10 paid holidays

Relocation assistance

Paid leave for new parents

Job summary

Palantir Technologies in Palo Alto is looking for an experienced Software Engineer to join their Foundations organization. You will help build the shared infrastructure that supports Palantir's platforms, working closely with a dedicated mentor to guide your professional growth.

The role offers the opportunity to engage in exciting projects and technologies, involving collaboration with engineers and customers. A passion for quality, performance, and helping developers succeed is crucial.

Qualifications

• Engineering background in fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, or Physics.
• Experience coding in programming languages, such as Java, C++, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, or similar.
• Familiarity with data structures, storage systems, and cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Build software to transform how organizations use data.
• Improve scalability and reliability of Palantir's platforms.
• Collaborate closely with technical and non-technical counterparts.

Skills

Clean code writing

Effective communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Passion for developer tools

Education

Engineering background in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Java

Go

TypeScript

Cassandra

Elasticsearch

React

Redux

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

Are you passionate about engineering quality, performance, and increasing the impact of engineers around you?

Software Engineers at Palantir build software at scale to transform how organizations around the world use data. As an engineer within Palantir's Foundations organization, you'll have the opportunity to grow more quickly than you ever imagined, as you build the shared infrastructure that underpins the Palantir Foundry, Palantir Gotham, and Palantir Apollo platforms, and drive investments to improve the velocity and quality of our engineering.

Teams within Palantir's Foundations organization are made up of a small number of engineers, each focused on one of four major categories of our infrastructure:

• Backend Infrastructure: Maximizes the productivity of our backend developers and ensures Palantir's platforms have performant and consistent RESTful services. Think: making the "easy way" the "right way" when developing backend services, including designing infrastructure to build hundreds of micro-service repos performantly, or to ensure we keep reliable audit logs of everything users do in our platforms.
• Developer Infrastructure: Operates the systems and services that underpin all aspects of our developer ecosystem, including off-the-shelf tooling like GitHub and custom tooling for managing automated changes across hundreds of repositories.
• Frontend Infrastructure: Maximizes frontend developer productivity across the entire frontend development stack, from the developer experience in the IDE to the final user experience in the browser. Think: the core infrastructure required to develop and serve our frontends (including features flags, internationalization, and commit previews), performant build tooling for millions of lines of TypeScript, and the Blueprint open source UI framework.
• Storage Infrastructure: Develops Palantir's database and search systems, which includes supporting storage technologies across cloud, on-premise, and classified or secure environments. This includes evolving our existing technologies to support ever-increasing data scale and latency requirements, and designing the next evolution of our database offering to provide step-change improvements in particular workflows.

Core Responsibilities

As a Software Engineer in Foundations, your projects may include building features to improve the developer experience for other Palantir engineers, or improving the scalability and reliability of Palantir's platforms.

You’ll be involved throughout the product lifecycle, from idea generation and design, to execution and rollout, all while being paired with a mentor dedicated to your growth and success. You’ll collaborate closely with technical and non-technical counterparts to understand our developers’ and customers’ problems and build infrastructure to tackle them.

Technologies We Use

It doesn't matter what languages you know when you join us; what matters is that you can write clean, effective code and learn new languages quickly.

• A variety of languages, including Java and Go for backend and TypeScript for frontend
• Open-source technologies like Cassandra, Spark, Elasticsearch, React, and Redux
• Industry-standard build tooling, including Gradle, CircleCI, and GitHub

What We Value

• Passion for helping other developers build better applications.
• Empathy for the impact your changes will have on the workflows and productivity of developers and end users.
• Ability to communicate and collaborate with a variety of individuals, including engineers, users and non-technical team members.
• Willingness to learn and make decisions independently, and the ability to ask questions effectively.
• Eagerness to delve into the source code of open-source libraries (such as Cassandra or Chromium) to truly understand how they work or to debug an issue.
• Staying up-to-date with recent industry practices and advancements in open-source technology.
• Active US Security clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain a US Security clearance.

What We Require

• Engineering background in fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, or Physics.
• Familiarity with data structures, storage systems, cloud infrastructure, frontend frameworks, and other technical tools.
• Experience coding in programming languages, such as Java, C++, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, or similar languages.

Salary

The estimated salary range for this position is $145,000 – $155,000 per year. Total compensation may also include Restricted Stock units, sign-on bonus, and other potential future incentives. Details are determined by qualifications, experience, and skills. This estimate excludes the value of any potential sign-on bonus, benefits offered, and long-term incentives.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and voluntary life insurance for employees and eligible dependents.
• Basic life, AD&D, and disability coverage.
• Commuter benefits, relocation assistance, and paid time off including flexible days and 10 paid holidays.
• Supportive leave of absence program, paid leave for new parents, and subsidized backup care.
• Fertility and family building benefits, including adoption, surrogacy, and preservation.
• Employer match to a 401(k) plan.

Equal Opportunity

Palantir is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer for all, including veterans and those with disabilities, and is committed to making the application and hiring process accessible to everyone. Reasonable accommodations are available for those with disabilities. Please contact HR to discuss accommodations or special assistance needed during the application process.