Software Engineer Internship in New York, NY

About the Role

Palantir builds software for data-driven decisions and operations, bringing the right data to the people who need it. Its platforms help partners develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more.

The Connectivity team builds products that connect critical institutions to their critical data. Connectors integrate databases, enterprise applications, cloud storage, web services, and streaming systems, so customers can bring data into Foundry and write back to their operational systems. These connections support the applications and AI workflows customers build with Foundry and AIP.

You will help build Foundry's first-class connector suite and the shared infrastructure behind it. You will work across the stack, owning connector implementations, developer SDKs, and the systems that build, test, distribute, and run connectivity software. Working alongside experienced engineers, you will tackle real problems in production systems, from adding a capability to a connector to improving performance, reliability, and observability. You will see your work through design, code review, testing, and release.

Core Responsibilities

• Build and maintain Foundry's first-class connectors, improving performance and extending support for imports, exports, change data capture, interactive queries, and writeback.
• Improve the infrastructure that builds, tests, packages, and distributes connectors and shared libraries, including tooling across the connector monorepo.
• Design and maintain connectivity SDKs for internal teams and end users, with clear APIs, documentation, testing utilities, and development workflows.
• Work with product teams to integrate connector execution with job orchestration, streaming, and serverless platforms.
• Debug production and performance issues across the stack, turning recurring problems into durable fixes, automated tests, and better observability.

What We Value

• Curiosity about how data connection systems work, from productized connectors to the infrastructure that runs them.
• An ownership mindset and a high bar for correctness, security, and automated testing, including responsibility for how software behaves in production.
• Comfort following problems across languages, APIs, services, networks, and execution environments.
• Eagerness to learn, ask questions, and incorporate feedback.

Technologies We Use

• Java and Python for connectors, backend services, and developer SDKs
• Open-source technologies such as Kafka, Kubernetes, Flink, Debezium, and Iceberg
• Gradle for builds and GitHub for collaboration
• Shared job orchestration, streaming, serverless execution, and compute deployment platforms

Palantir values excellence regardless of background and is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Accommodations are available for those living with a disability during the application and hiring process.

Palantir encourages in-person work from its offices, though some roles allow remote work on an exceptional basis. Many teams also offer hybrid options.