Software Engineer, New Grad - Infrastructure

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, and locate missing children.

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 use data. As an engineer in the Foundations organization, you'll build shared infrastructure that underpins Palantir Foundry, Gotham, and Apollo, and drive investments to improve engineering velocity and quality.

Teams in Foundations are small groups focused on one of four infrastructure categories:

• Backend Infrastructure: Maximizes backend developer productivity and ensures performant, consistent RESTful services.
• Developer Infrastructure: Operates systems and services that underpin the developer ecosystem, including GitHub and custom tooling.
• Frontend Infrastructure: Maximizes frontend developer productivity across the entire stack, from IDE to browser.
• Storage Infrastructure: Develops database and search systems across cloud, on-premise, and secure environments.

Core Responsibilities

As a Software Engineer in Foundations, your projects may include building features to improve developer experience or improving platform scalability and reliability.

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

Technologies We Use

It doesn't matter what languages you know when you join; what matters is that you can write clean, effective code and learn quickly. Our software evolves constantly, so we need engineers who can too.

Right now, we use:

• Languages including Java, Go, and TypeScript
• Open-source technologies like Cassandra, Spark, Elasticsearch, React, and Redux
• Build tooling including Gradle, CircleCI, and GitHub

What We Value

• Passion for helping other developers build better applications.
• Empathy for the impact of your changes on workflows and productivity.
• Ability to communicate and collaborate with engineers, users, and non-technical team members.
• Willingness to learn and make decisions independently, and to ask questions effectively.
• Eagerness to delve into open-source libraries (like Cassandra or Chromium) to understand or debug them.
• Staying current with industry practices and open-source technology.
• Active US Security clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain one.

What We Require

• Engineering background in Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, or Physics.
• Familiarity with data structures, storage systems, cloud infrastructure, frontend frameworks, and other technical tools.
• Experience coding in Java, C++, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, or similar languages.

To Apply

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