DevOps Engineer

The Role

As a member of the Compute Tools team, you’ll design and build the systems that enable Palantirians to succeed. You’ll be the expert and owner of our internal platforms, helping to leverage a combination of Palantir’s own products and open source tools to provide stable and flexible services for a constantly evolving set of use cases. We’re responsible for making architectural decisions that enable sustainable operations in light of that evolving usage.

Core Responsibilities

• Apply modern engineering practices to improve the maintainability, reliability, and utility of Palantir's internal compute infrastructure.
• Drive build-vs-buy decisions and partner with vendors to integrate external technologies into our platform.
• Collaborate with other teams to understand emerging needs and deliver solutions that help users succeed.
• Participate in the on-call rotation for high-severity incidents affecting critical systems.
• Research and evaluate new technologies to identify where our infrastructure can improve.

What We Require

• 3+ years of professional software development experience on core infrastructure with emphasis on operational excellence.
• 2+ years of experience contributing to the system design or architecture (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems.

What We Value

• Systems programming experience with strong proficiency in Go, Python, or Rust.
• Deep familiarity with containers (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Experience working with a cloud provider (AWS/Azure/GCE), or sysadmin/SRE experience in data centers.
• Up to date with modern industry practices and open-source advancements.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, APIs, cloud platforms, and on-premises infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and system reliability principles.
• Willingness and eligibility to obtain a U.S. security clearance.