Software Engineer - Python Infrastructure Developer

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

Software Engineers at Palantir build software at scale to transform how organizations globally use data. As a Software Engineer on Developer Infrastructure, you’ll identify, develop, and drive investments to improve the velocity and quality of our engineering, as well as bolster the happiness and productivity of other developers.

• The Developer Infrastructure role spans a spectrum of areas, such as build and software supply-chain systems, platform runtime environments, telemetry relating concurrency, memory/performance optimizations, and monitoring/alerting.
• Your primary users will be other developers at Palantir. They will be empowered with the software you develop to build capabilities used by research scientists, aerospace engineers, intelligence analysts, and economic forecasters in countries around the world.
• There will be opportunities to contribute to open source software, including projects maintained by others that we leverage.

Core Responsibilities

• Define and build standard practices for how services are operated and observed throughout their deployment
• Build libraries and tooling for defining service APIs and the RPC interactions between microservices; like the conjure ecosystem
• Help developers understand and adhere to development best practices by building great tools and development processes
• Push Palantir to the cutting edge of software supply chain security

Technologies We Use

• A variety of languages, including Python, Java, Go, and TypeScript
• Open-source databases like Cassandra, Lucene, Elasticsearch
• Open-source libraries/frameworks like GraphQL, Undertow, Jackson, Log4j, Rattler and Conda
• Industry-standard build tooling, including Gradle, Webpack, Hatch, CircleCI, and GitHub

What We Value

• Growing subject matter expertise and depth of understanding of a problem space
• Embracing, centralizing, and abstracting complexity away from our users in order to expose simple, powerful APIs
• Great problem-solving skills with the ability to evolve complex systems

What We Require

• 2+ years of software engineering experience, preferably in fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics
• Strong coding skills with demonstrated proficiency in programming languages, such as Java, C++, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar languages
• Ability to dive into and navigate complex systems to better understand the nuances in how they work
• Demonstrated ability to learn and work independently and make decisions with minimal direction