Senior Software Engineer, Network Infrastructure

The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer on Network Infrastructure you will be joining a team whose mission is to make a highly dynamic and intricate Kubernetes networking tech stack a pleasure to interact with, in addition to being legible, robust and secure.

The Network Infrastructure team owns the tech responsible for north-south and east-west traffic flows across 100s of zero-trust K8s clusters running variable workloads. The team solves the novel technical challenges emergent at the intersection of scale, usability and security: enabling dynamic control over ephemeral infrastructure (10s of thousands of firewall rules targeting 1000s of short-lived pods) across multiple compliance regimes, using CNCF tools like envoy, cilium with K8s controllers to operate them.

Core Responsibilities

• Drive Palantir’s infrastructure strategy while grappling with the needs of your team’s diverse customer base
• Build the APIs through which both internal and external software developers interact with network infrastructure
• Deeply understand and leverage K8s networking primitives and the broader OSS ecosystem around K8s
• Champion a long-term roadmap to reduce operational burden, ensure scalability, reduce risk, and strive for transformative impact

What We Value

• Clear and concise verbal and written communications with a focus on impact and ability to articulate the value your work provides
• Ability to engage stakeholders and ensure timely delivery to address core business needs
• Passion for designing thoughtful and robust APIs
• Deep familiarity with K8s, and the broader ecosystem of software around K8s
• Working knowledge of networking fundamentals, experience with CNIs or cloud networking infrastructure preferred
• Experience designing, building, and operating high-scale observability or infrastructure systems
• Strong coding skills in Go, Java, or equivalent

What We Require

• 3+ years of professional software development experience
• 1+ years of experience contributing to the system design or architecture (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent