Mission Manager · Palantir

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:54:22 GMT
Engineering

A Mission Manager at Palantir is responsible for enabling US Government customers and vendors to run software securely and compliantly in sensitive environments. The role involves working closely with engineers to understand product gaps and identify improvements, engaging with Palantir's infrastructure strategy, and leveraging Kubernetes primitives to solve business critical problems.

Key responsibilities include:

Working closely with forward deployed and customer engineers to understand product gaps and identify both short- and long-term product improvements and fixes

Engaging with and internalizing Palantir's infrastructure strategy and the needs of our customer stakeholders

Deeply understanding and leveraging K8s primitives, the broader OSS ecosystem around K8s, and highly technical service lifecycle semantics to solve business critical problems at scale

Building and evolving the APIs through which in-house and customer software developers interact with K8s to satisfy their runtime needs, cleanly abstracting away the complex distributed systems powering them

Working closely with your team and stakeholders to enable sustainable and timely delivery of technical solutions to address business needs

Championing a long-term tech roadmap to reduce operational burden, ensure scalability, reduce risk, and strive for step-changes whenever possible

This role requires strong coding skills in Go, Java, or equivalent, experience designing, building, and operating high-scale observability or infrastructure systems, and a bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

The estimated salary range for this position is $135,000 - $200,000/year, and total compensation may also include Restricted Stock units, sign-on bonus, and other potential future incentives.