Senior Software Engineer, Palantir
Apollo Platform
3-4 days a week in office
Data analytics software
Job no longer available
Data analytics software
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
3-4 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
- 3+ years of professional software development experience
- 1+ 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 Java, Go, or equivalent
- Experience with databases and distributed systems at scale
- Experience building and operating web services
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- 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 to 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
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer on the Apollo platform you will be responsible for delivering on business-critical outcomes through your product contributions to our Apollo offerings
- You will develop a deep understanding of our micro-services and how they power key workflows in Apollo, enabling you to lead complex and technically challenging improvements to the product
- End-to-end ownership over key product investments, delivering them with high velocity and quality - often across team boundaries
- Proactively drive the technical strategy for your team and ensure alignment with business and product strategy
- Key contributor to a long-term tech roadmap to reduce operational burden, ensure scalability, reduce risk, and guide your team towards step-changes whenever possible
- Act as a multiplier for other engineers on the team. Driven by engineering excellence and helping others achieve it
- Lead engineers and accelerate their growth by providing thoughtful feedback, technical mentorship, and effectively manage performance
Salary benchmarks
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
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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