Software Engineer - Python Developer Productivity

A World-Changing Company

Palantir builds the world’s leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more.

The Role

Software Engineers at Palantir build software at scale to transform how organizations globally use data. As a Software Engineer on Developer Productivity, you’ll identify, develop, and drive investments to improve the velocity and quality of our engineering, as well as bolster the happiness and productivity of other developers.

The role spans a spectrum of areas, such as build and software supply-chain systems, platform runtime environments, telemetry relating concurrency, memory/performance optimizations, and monitoring/alerting. Your primary users will be other developers at Palantir. They will be empowered with the software you develop to build capabilities used by research scientists, aerospace engineers, intelligence analysts, and economic forecasters in countries around the world. There will be opportunities to contribute to open source software, including projects maintained by others that we leverage. You’ll work autonomously within a community that will support and challenge you as you grow to become a strong technical contributor and engineering leader.

The team is playing a crucial role in shaping Palantir's approach to Python, a language that has not been extensively used in our products before.

Core Responsibilities

We're hiring engineers who are passionate about empowering developers to solve real-world problems. If you’re motivated to develop reliable, performant, scalable systems and tools, here are some examples of the types of work you’d get to do:

• Define and build standard practices for how services are operated and observed throughout their deployment

• Build frameworks, libraries and tooling for defining service APIs and the RPC interactions between microservices; like the conjure ecosystem

• Help developers understand and adhere to development best practices by building great tools and development processes

• Push Palantir to the cutting edge of software supply chain security

Technologies We Use

• A variety of languages, including Python, Java, Go, Rust, and TypeScript.
• Open-source databases like Cassandra, Lucene, Elasticsearch.
• Open-source libraries/frameworks like Rattler, Conda, GraphQL, Undertow, Jackson and Log4j.
• Industry-standard build tooling, including Hatch, Gradle, Webpack, CircleCI, and GitHub.

What We Value

• Growing subject matter expertise and depth of understanding of a problem space.
• Embracing, centralizing, and abstracting complexity away from our users in order to expose simple, powerful APIs.
• Ability to understand how technical decisions impact your users and a drive to super-power those people, particularly through empathy for developer/operator workflows and productivity.
• Awareness of recent industry best practices and open source advancements.
• Great problem solving skills with ability to evolve complex systems.

What We Require

• 2+ years of software engineering experience, preferably in fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics.
• Strong coding skills with demonstrated proficiency in programming languages, such as Python, Java, C++, Rust, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar languages.
• Ability to dive into and navigate complex systems to better understand the nuances in how they work.
• Demonstrated ability to learn and work independently and make decisions with minimal direction.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Salary

The estimated salary range for this position is estimated to be $135,000 - $200,000/year. Total compensation for this position may also include Restricted Stock units, sign-on bonus and other potential future incentives. Further note that total compensation for this position will be determined by each individual’s relevant qualifications, work experience, skills, and other factors. This estimate excludes the value of any potential sign-on bonus; the value of any benefits offered; and the potential future value of any long-term incentives.

Our benefits aim to promote health and wellbeing across all areas of Palantirians’ lives. We work to continuously improve our offerings and listen to our community as we design and update them. The list below details our available benefits and some of the perks that can be enjoyed as an employee of Palantir Technologies.

Benefits

• Employees (and their eligible dependents) can enroll in medical, dental, and vision insurance as well as voluntary life insurance

• Employees are automatically covered by Palantir’s basic life, AD&D and disability insurance

• Commuter benefits

• Relocation assistance

• Take what you need paid time off, not accrual based

• 2 weeks paid time off built into the end of each year (subject to team and business needs)

• 10 paid holidays throughout the calendar year

• Supportive leave of absence program including time off for military service and medical events

• Paid leave for new parents and subsidized back-up care for all parents

• Fertility and family building benefits including but not limited to adoption, surrogacy, and preservation

• Stipend to help with expenses that come with a new child

• Employees can enroll in Palantir’s 401k plan