Senior Software Engineer, Palantir
Observability
$120-200k
Total compensation for this position may also include Restricted Stock units, sign-on bonus and other potential future incentives
5+ days a week in office
Data analytics software
Job no longer available
Data analytics software
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$120-200k
Total compensation for this position may also include Restricted Stock units, sign-on bonus and other potential future incentives
5+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
Palantir believes in augmenting human intelligence, not replacing it. They believe with good data and the right technology, people and institutions today can still solve hard problems and change the world for the better.
Role
Who you are
- Experience designing, building and operating high-scale observability or infrastructure systems
- Clear and concise verbal and written communications
- Experience leading complex, cross-team engineering efforts, including analysis of requirements and scoping, and knowing what it takes to deliver high-quality software
- Demonstrated ability work in a fast-paced product development team, with peers and teammates across multiple locations and timezones
- Willingness and enthusiasm to do what it takes to get things done, leading by example and getting involved with the team’s day-to-day work
- A focus on impact and an ability to articulate the value your work provides
- 5+ years of professional software development experience
- 2+ years of experience contributing to the system design or architecture (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- 1+ years of experience as a mentor, tech lead Or leading an engineering team
- Strong coding skills in Go, Java, or equivalent
- Experience designing, building, and operating high-scale observability or infrastructure systems
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- You have a deep systems background and value technical excellence, and consistently raise the bar for your team’s technical execution
- You know how to balance providing value to your users while building defensive systems that are operationally sound and easy to maintain
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be directly responsible for Palantir’s observability platform
- This includes everything from log/metric/trace ingestion and processing, monitoring and alerting solutions, and all other workflows on top of the observability data
- This role will have a direct impact on Palantir’s ability to scale our engineering efforts through these investments
- Partner with our extended leadership team to set and define a technical strategy for your team aligned with the wider team strategy
- Build and champion a long-term tech roadmap to reduce operational burden, ensure scalability, reduce risk, and guide your team towards step-changes whenever possible
- Be technically involved and engage in substantive discussion when reviewing technical roadmaps and project implementation with the team
- Work closely with teammates and stakeholders to enable sustainable and timely delivery of technical solutions to address business needs
- Facilitate partnerships between engineering teams and operators to build innovative products that help Palantir scale
- Act as a multiplier for other engineers on the team. Define where the technical bar should be, and help engineers achieve it. Lead engineers and accelerate their growth by providing thoughtful feedback, technical mentorship, and effectively manage performance
- Foster a non-hierarchical exchange of ideas; valuing the idea rather than the individual who communicates it
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
Palantir have a huge mission to transform the world using data and technology. Its technology has been used to stop terrorist attacks, discover medicines and gain an edge in the financial markets. These are big and exciting problems to work on.
Palantir is a big and established company, having been founded in 2004, but is still struggling to turn a profit thanks to aggressive expansion and a general downturn in the global economy particularly affecting tech. It has large customers (including the US military and in 2024, the Israeli Defence Ministry) and a strong demand for its product, but delivery is a long-term and complex proposition that can take some time to yield returns.
There has been some controversy around the company due to the work it does for the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, an organisation that Google refused to support. Palantir has stated that its technology is only used for criminal investigation and not enforcement.
Palantir has recently expanded its ongoing role with the British Ministry of Defence which will offer support for the UK's military operations and intelligence gathering by simulating operational planning. This is in addition to Palantir's partnership with the UK's NHS to help reduce the backlog of patients waiting for elective care.
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 14 rounds)
Jun 2020
$550m
LATE VC
Nov 2016
$20m
LATE VC
Total funding: $2.6bn
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Life and disability coverage
- Paid leave for new parents and emergency back-up care for all parents
- Family planning support, including fertility, adoption, and surrogacy assistance
- Stipend to help with expenses that come with a new child
- Commuter benefits
- Relocation assistance
- Unlimited paid time off
- 2 weeks paid time off built into the end of each year
Company values
- We make products for human-driven analysis of real-world data
- We build our company around mission-driven engineering
- We meet the problems where they live
- We design technology to help institutions protect liberty
- We go where we're needed most
Company HQ
LoDo, Denver, CO
Founders
Alexander Karp
(CEO)Previously founded Caedmon Group. Received Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from Stanford University and holds a Ph.D. in neoclassical social theory from the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany.
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