Backend Software Engineer - Infrastructure, Foundations
Core
Building foundational infrastructure and distributed systems that power Palantir's Foundry and Gotham platforms for data-driven decision-making.
Role type
Senior IC backend software engineer (infrastructure)
Builds
High-scale distributed systems, search/indexing ecosystems, and robust APIs for storage, auth, and asset serving.
Domain
Enterprise software, distributed systems, data infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Java, Rust, Go, distributed systems design, API design, performance optimization, container orchestration, observability
Preferred skills
Open-source library development, security clearance eligibility, experience with Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Kubernetes, Flink
Technologies
Java, Rust, Go, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Spark, Kafka, Kubernetes, Flink, Gradle, GitHub
Responsibilities
Building performant search and indexing ecosystems for complex permissioned data; Contributing to open-source data processing libraries; Building distributed systems for large-scale compute workloads; Designing architecture and opinionated APIs; Implementing tracing and performance observability; Automating deployment and management of complex distributed systems
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
