Software Engineer Internship

About Palantir

Palantir builds the world's leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. Our platforms empower 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 around the world use data. As an intern within Palantir's Foundations organization, you'll have the opportunity to grow quickly while building the shared infrastructure that underpins Palantir Foundry, Gotham, and Apollo platforms, and drive investments to improve engineering velocity and quality.

Teams within the Foundations organization consist of a small number of engineers, each focused on one of four major infrastructure categories:

• Backend Infrastructure: Maximizes backend developer productivity and ensures performant, consistent RESTful services across Palantir's platforms.
• Developer Infrastructure: Operates systems and services underpinning the developer ecosystem, including off-the-shelf tooling like GitHub and custom tooling for automated changes across hundreds of repositories.
• Frontend Infrastructure: Maximizes frontend developer productivity across the entire stack, from IDE experience to browser user experience, including feature flags, internationalization, commit previews, and build tooling for millions of lines of TypeScript.
• Storage Infrastructure: Develops Palantir's database and search systems, supporting storage technologies across cloud, on-premise, and classified environments, and evolves technologies to meet data scale and latency requirements.

Core Responsibilities

As a Software Engineering Intern in Foundations, your projects may include building features to improve developer experience or improving scalability and reliability of Palantir's platforms.

You'll be involved throughout the product lifecycle, from idea generation and design to execution and rollout, paired with a mentor dedicated to your growth. You'll collaborate with technical and non-technical counterparts to understand and solve developer and customer problems.

Technologies We Use

It doesn't matter what languages you know when you join, but you must write clean, effective code and learn new languages quickly. Our software evolves constantly, so we need engineers who can adapt. Currently, we use:

• Languages including Java and Go for backend, TypeScript for frontend
• Open-source technologies like Cassandra, Spark, Elasticsearch, React, and Redux
• Industry-standard build tooling including Gradle, CircleCI, and GitHub

What We Value

• Passion for helping other developers build better applications.
• Empathy for the impact your changes have on workflows and productivity of developers and end users.
• Ability to communicate and collaborate with engineers, users, and non-technical team members.
• Willingness to learn and make decisions independently, and ask questions when needed.
• Active US Security clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain one.

What We Require

• Engineering background in fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, or Physics.
• Familiarity with data structures, storage systems, cloud infrastructure, front-end frameworks, and other technical tools.
• Experience coding in programming languages such as Java, C++, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, or similar.
• Must be planning to graduate in 2028. This should be your final internship before graduating.

To Apply

• An updated resume/CV in PDF format.
• Thoughtful responses to our application questions.