A World-Changing Company
Palantir builds the world's leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more.
The Role
We're looking for Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineers who can help us build, operate, and maintain high-performance, scalable, and reliable services for Palantir platforms, products, and deployments. You'll get to use your creativity to develop novel solutions to evolving challenges and automate processes wherever possible, using whichever tools are best for the job including industry-leading LLM and AI technology!
As a Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer, every day is different! You will be developing software and providing high-quality support for software systems that are critical to solving our government's greatest challenges. We strongly believe in engineering teams being responsible for the operations of their services in production. As such, you'll work closely with forward deployed teams and product teams to participate in sensible, scalable, systems design and share responsibility with them in diagnosing, resolving, and preventing production issues. Core Responsibilities Handle support and operations of Palantir software, including monitoring and alerting, configuration management, and upgrades
Deploy new Palantir products at customer deployments and perform migrations to the latest infrastructure types
Debug, improve, and optimize Palantir's services and infrastructure with a focus on long-term reliability and scalability
Reduce manual operations and automate workflows, processes, and/or runbooks where possible
Provide technical troubleshooting support for production issues, ensuring timely resolution and minimal impact on operations. Participate in a support on-call schedule.
What We Value Confidence in troubleshooting complex systems issues independently using observability tools and service logs.
Ability to identify and automate highly manual tasks, driving ongoing improvements within and across teams.
Comfort with large scale production systems and technologies - for example, load balancing, monitoring, distributed systems, or configuration management.
Proficiency with programming languages such as Java, Python, Bash, JavaScript, Go or similar languages and be comfortable coding and/or utilizing tooling built in these languages
Ability to work with a high level of autonomy and responsibility in a rapidly changing environment with dynamic objectives and iteration with users.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively in multi-functional teams.
What We Require Active US Security clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain a US Security clearance.
Our benefits aim to promote health and wellbeing across all areas of Palantirians' lives. We work to continuously improve our offerings and listen to our community as we design and update them. The list below details our available benefits and some of the perks that can be enjoyed as an employee of Palantir Technologies. Benefits Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Life and disability coverage
Paid leave for new parents and emergency back-up care for all parents
Family planning support, including fertility, adoption, and surrogacy assistance
Stipend to help with expenses that come with a new child
Commuter benefits
Relocation assistance
Unlimited paid time off
