Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer, New Grad

About the Role

Palantir builds world-leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. The Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer role involves building, operating, and maintaining high-performance, scalable, and reliable services for Palantir platforms, products, and deployments. This role requires developing software and providing high-quality support for critical government-facing software systems. Engineers will work closely with forward deployed and product teams on systems design, and share responsibility for diagnosing, resolving, and preventing production issues.

Key Responsibilities

• Handle support and operations of Palantir software, including monitoring and alerting, configuration management, and upgrades.
• Deploy new Palantir products at customer deployments and perform migrations to the latest infrastructure types.
• Debug, improve, and optimize Palantir’s services and infrastructure with a focus on long-term reliability and scalability.
• Reduce manual operations and automate workflows, processes, and/or runbooks where possible.
• Provide technical troubleshooting support for production issues, ensuring timely resolution and minimal impact on operations. Participate in a support on-call schedule.
• Develop novel solutions in Palantir’s Foundry and Apollo platforms to solve infrastructure challenges.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Confidence in troubleshooting complex systems issues independently using observability tools and service logs.
• Ability to identify and automate highly manual tasks, driving ongoing improvements within and across teams.
• Comfort with large scale production systems and technologies like load balancing, monitoring, distributed systems, or configuration management.
• Proficiency with programming languages such as Java, Python, Bash, JavaScript, Go or similar languages, and comfort coding and/or utilizing tooling built in these languages.
• Ability to work with a high level of autonomy and responsibility in a rapidly changing environment with dynamic objectives and iteration with users.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively in multi-functional teams.
• Strong engineering background, preferred in fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, and Data Science.
• Strong coder with shown proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Go, Python, JavaScript, or similar languages.
• Active US Security clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain a US Security clearance.

Qualifications

• Develop novel solutions in Palantir’s Foundry and Apollo platforms.
• Use of industry-leading LLM and AI technology.