Software Engineer - Apollo Systems

About the Role

Apollo is Palantir’s autonomous software management and deployment platform. It enables seamless, continuous delivery of mission-critical software (Foundry, Gotham, AIP) across environments including on-prem, public cloud, disconnected (air-gapped) networks, and highly regulated settings (IL-5 and FedRAMP).

As a Software Engineer on the Apollo team, you’ll build and operate a large-scale distributed system to allow remote operation and maintenance of Kubernetes clusters. You will design and implement backup and restore solutions for Kubernetes, build and optimize our container artifact store based on the OCI distribution spec, and own the infrastructure supporting environments from hyperscalers to edge deployments. Usage of AI tools (Claude Code/Codex/Copilot) is highly encouraged.

Core Responsibilities

• Build and maintain highly available systems responsible for orchestration of software deployment across hundreds of production environments.
• Develop performance-sensitive storage features and optimizations to store and serve Palantir products.
• Engage and solve problems that customers need today with a tight feedback loop.
• Work directly with other teams to solve problems across team boundaries.
• Debug complex issues and performance problems throughout the stack, including open source.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements

• 4+ years of professional software development experience on core infrastructure with emphasis on operational excellence.
• 2+ years of experience contributing to system design or architecture (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

What We Value

• Systems programming experience with strong proficiency in Go, Java, or equivalent.
• Familiarity with containers (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) at scale.
• Experience with hosted container registries (Amazon ECR, Google Artifact Registry, or Azure Container Registry).
• Familiarity with the OCI Distribution Spec and open-source registry projects (e.g., distribution/distribution, Harbor).
• Experience designing, building, and operating high-scale observability or infrastructure systems.
• Experience building software in a fast-paced CI/CD development environment.
• Empathy for developer and operator workflows and productivity.