Software Engineer, Internship - Infrastructure

The Role

Software Engineers at Palantir build software at scale to transform how organizations around the world use data. As an intern within Palantir’s Foundations organization, you’ll build shared infrastructure underpinning Palantir Foundry, Palantir Gotham, and Palantir Apollo platforms, driving investments to improve the velocity and quality of engineering.

Teams within Palantir’s Foundations organization focus on one of four major categories of infrastructure:

• Backend Infrastructure: Maximizes productivity of backend developers and ensures platforms have performant and consistent RESTful services, including designing infrastructure to build micro-service repositories performantly and maintain reliable audit logs.
• Developer Infrastructure: Operates the systems and services underpinning the developer ecosystem, including off-the-shelf tooling like GitHub and custom tooling for managing automated changes across hundreds of repositories.
• Frontend Infrastructure: Maximizes developer productivity across the entire frontend development stack, from IDE to browser user experience (feature flags, internationalization, commit previews, build tooling for TypeScript, Blueprint open source UI framework).
• Storage Infrastructure: Develops database and search systems supporting storage technologies across cloud, on-premise, and secure environments to support data scale and latency requirements.

Core Responsibilities

• Build features to improve developer experience for engineers or improve scalability and reliability of platforms.
• Participate throughout the product lifecycle, from idea generation and design to execution and rollout, paired with a dedicated mentor.
• Collaborate with technical and non-technical counterparts to understand developer and customer problems and build infrastructure to tackle them.

What We Require

• Engineering background in fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, or Physics.
• Familiarity with data structures, storage systems, cloud infrastructure, front-end frameworks, and other technical tools.
• Experience coding in programming languages such as Java, C++, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, or similar languages.
• Must be planning on graduating in 2028 (this should be your final internship before graduating).

What We Value

• Passion for helping other developers build better applications.
• Empathy for the impact changes have on workflows and productivity.
• Ability to communicate and collaborate with diverse individuals.
• Willingness to learn and make decisions independently, asking questions when needed.
• Active US Security clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain one.