Workplace
hybrid
Employment
Full-Time
Published
Jun 26, 2025
Closes
No date supplied
The role
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 Are you passionate about engineering quality, performance, and increasing the impact of engineers around you? Software Engineers at Palantir build software at scale to transform how organizations around the world use data. As an engineer within Palantir’s Foundations organization, you’ll have the opportunity to grow more quickly than you ever imagined, as you build the shared infrastructure that underpins the Palantir Foundry, Palantir Gotham, and Palantir Apollo platforms, and drive investments to improve the velocity and quality of our engineering. Teams within Palantir’s Foundations organization are made up of a small number of engineers, each focused on one of four major categories of our infrastructure: • Backend Infrastructure: Maximizes the productivity of our backend developers and ensures Palantir’s platforms have performant and consistent RESTful services. Think: making the “easy way” the “right way” when developing backend services, including designing infrastructure to build hundreds of micro-service repos performantly, or to ensure we keep reliable audit logs of everything users do in our platforms. • Developer Infrastructure: Operates the systems and services that underpin all aspects of our developer ecosystem, including off-the-shelf tooling like GitHub and custom tooling for managing automated changes across hundreds of repositories. • Frontend Infrastructure: Maximizes frontend developer productivity across the entire frontend development stack, from the developer experience in the IDE to the final user experience in the browser. Think: the core infrastructure required to develop and serve our frontends (including features flags, internationaliz
Requirements
What We Value: Passion for helping other developers build better applications. Empathy for the impact your changes will have on the workflows and productivity of developers and end users. Ability to communicate and collaborate with a variety of individuals, including engineers, users and non-technical team members. Willingness to learn and make decisions independently, and the ability to ask questions effectively. Eagerness to delve into the source code of open-source libraries (such as Cassandra or Chromium) to truly understand how they work or to debug an issue. Staying up-to-date with recent industry practices and advancements in open-source technology. Active US Security clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain a US Security clearance. What We Require: Engineering background in fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, or Physics. Familiarity with data structures, storage systems, cloud infrastructure, frontend frameworks, and other technical tools. Experience coding in programming languages, such as Java, C++, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, or similar languages. To apply, please submit the following:: An updated resume / CV - please do so in PDF format. Thoughtful responses to our application questions.