Software Engineer - Environment Platform

The Role

As a Software Engineer on the Environment Platform team, you will author the strategy by which each of Palantir’s software platforms—Foundry, Gotham, Apollo—achieves full containerization across diverse infrastructure types. You will build elegant, robust APIs powered by K8s controllers that bridge the gap between a raw Kubernetes cluster and a fully-featured, infrastructure-agnostic runtime scaling to hundreds of specialized microservices.

Core Responsibilities

• Engage with and internalize Palantir’s infrastructure strategy and team customer needs.
• Deeply understand and leverage K8s primitives, the broader OSS ecosystem around K8s, and service lifecycle semantics to solve critical business problems at scale.
• Build and evolve APIs through which internal and third-party software developers interact with K8s, abstracting away complex distributed systems.
• Work closely with your team and stakeholders to enable sustainable, timely delivery of technical solutions.
• Champion a long-term technical roadmap to reduce operational burden, ensure scalability, reduce risk, and strive for step-changes.

What We Value

• Clear and concise verbal and written communications.
• Focus on impact and ability to articulate the value your work provides.
• Experience developing and managing highly available distributed systems.
• Passion for designing thoughtful and robust APIs.
• Deep familiarity with K8s and the broader ecosystem of software around it.

What We Require

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• 1+ years of experience contributing to system design or architecture (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems.
• 1+ years of experience as a mentor, tech lead, or leading an engineering team.
• Strong coding skills in Go, Java, or equivalent.
• Experience designing, building, and operating high-scale observability or infrastructure systems.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.