Member of the Compute Tools team · Palantir

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:45:28 GMT
Engineering

Palantir · Mountain View · $135,000 - $200,000/year · onsite

As a member of the Compute Tools team, you'll design and build the systems that enable Palantirians to succeed. You'll be the expert and owner of our internal platforms, helping to leverage a combination of Palantir's own products and open source tools to provide stable and flexible services for a constantly evolving set of use cases. We're responsible for making architectural decisions that enable sustainable operations in light of that evolving usage.

Core Responsibilities

Apply modern engineering practices to improve the maintainability, reliability, and utility of Palantir's internal compute infrastructure.

Drive build-vs-buy decisions and partner with vendors to integrate external technologies into our platform.

Collaborate with other teams to understand emerging needs and deliver solutions that help users succeed.

Participate in the on-call rotation for high-severity incidents affecting critical systems.

Research and evaluate new technologies to identify where our infrastructure can improve.

What We Value

Systems programming experience with strong proficiency in Go, Python, or Rust.

Deep familiarity with containers (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).

Experience working with a cloud provider (AWS/Azure/GCE), or sysadmin/SRE experience in data centers.

Up to date with modern industry practices and open-source advancements.

Solid understanding of distributed systems, APIs, cloud platforms, and on-prem infrastructure.

Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and system reliability principles.

Willingness and eligibility to obtain a U.S. security clearance.

What We Require

3+ years of professional software development experience on core infrastructure with emphasis on operational excellence.

2+ years of experience contributing to the system design or architecture (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems.