Senior Backend Software Engineer - Infrastructure · Palantir

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:54:58 GMT
Engineering

Palantir · New York · $135,000 - $200,000/year · hybrid

A Senior Backend Software Engineer - Infrastructure at Palantir will contribute high-quality code to underpin Palantir Foundry and Gotham with performant, secure, and scalable building blocks, enabling products deployed to the most important institutions in the public and private sector.

You will build the foundational capabilities that power our products used by research scientists, aerospace engineers, intelligence analysts, and economic forecasters, in countries around the world.

We're hiring engineers who are passionate about solving real-world problems and empowering both developers and end-users to work optimally.

If you’re motivated to develop reliable, performant, and scalable systems, and to design robust APIs and primitives, this role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on our products and the people who use them.

As a Senior Backend Software Engineer - Infrastructure, you will:

Build a performant search and indexing ecosystem for complex granularly permissioned data

Contribute to open-source data processing libraries, integrating the latest innovations to achieve performance gains

Build the distributed systems that power large scale compute workloads, orchestrating and efficiently scheduling hundreds of thousands of containers every hour

Design architecture and opinionated APIs to keep application developers on the happy path

Trace and performance observability in high scale distributed microservice architectures

Build reliant, performant, and scalable systems for storage, auth, or asset serving to enable other product teams to build robust applications without deep domain expertise in the underlying systems

Automate the deployment, management, and operations of complex distributed systems like Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Kafka, and more across different environments

We use different backend languages, including Java, Rust, and Go, and open-source technologies like Cassandra, ElasticSearch, Spark, Kafka, Kubernetes, Flink, and industry-standard build tooling, including Gradle and GitHub.

To succeed in this role, you will need to demonstrate:

Demonstrated ability to collaborate and empathize with a variety of individuals

Ability to learn new technology and concepts, even without in-depth experience

Bias towards quality and thoughtful about edge cases (“anything that can go wrong will go wrong”); writes code that is defensive against all possibilities

Leading solutions and APIs with users in mind while maintaining a high engineering bar

We require:

6+ years of experience designing, building, and operating scalable and reliable infrastructure systems in a production environment

Engineering background in Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics or similar field

Strong coding skills with demonstrated proficiency in programming languages, such as Java, C++, Python, Rust, or similar languages

Familiarity with storage and data processing systems, cloud infrastructure, and other technical tools

Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to iterate quickly with teammates, incorporating feedback and holding a high bar for quality

The estimated salary range for this position is $135,000 - $200,000/year.