Software Engineer, New Grad - Infrastructure

The Role

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 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 engineering.

Teams within Palantir’s Foundations organization are focused on one of four major categories:

• Backend Infrastructure: Maximizes developer productivity and ensures performant, consistent RESTful services and micro-service infrastructure.
• Developer Infrastructure: Operates the systems and services underpinning our developer ecosystem, including off-the-shelf tooling like GitHub and custom automation tooling.
• Frontend Infrastructure: Maximizes frontend productivity across the entire stack, including build tooling for TypeScript and the Blueprint open source UI framework.
• Storage Infrastructure: Develops database and search systems across cloud, on-premise, and classified/secure environments.

Core Responsibilities

• Build features to improve developer experience or improve the scalability and reliability of Palantir’s platforms.
• Engage throughout the product lifecycle, from ideation and design to execution and rollout.
• Collaborate closely with technical and non-technical counterparts to understand developer and customer challenges and design infrastructure solutions.

Technologies We Use

• Languages: Java, Go, TypeScript
• Open-source technologies: Cassandra, Spark, Elasticsearch, React, Redux
• Build tooling: Gradle, CircleCI, GitHub

What We Value

• Passion for helping other developers build better applications.
• Empathy for the impact changes have on developer and end-user workflows.
• Ability to communicate and collaborate with diverse team members and users.
• Willingness to learn, make decisions independently, and ask questions effectively.
• Eagerness to delve into open-source codebases (such as Cassandra or Chromium) for debugging or deep understanding.
• Staying up to date with modern industry practices and open-source advancements.
• Active US Security clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain one.

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.

Application Requirements

• Updated resume / CV in PDF format.
• Thoughtful responses to application questions.