Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer, New Grad

The Role

Palantir builds software for data-driven decisions and operations. This role involves building, operating, and maintaining high-performance, scalable, and reliable services for Palantir platforms, products, and deployments. You will develop software and provide support for critical software systems, working closely with forward-deployed and product teams to design systems and resolve 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.
• Comfort with large-scale production systems and technologies such as load balancing, monitoring, distributed systems, or configuration management.
• Proficiency with programming languages such as Java, Python, Bash, JavaScript, Go, or similar languages.
• Ability to work with a high level of autonomy and responsibility in a rapidly changing environment with dynamic objectives.
• 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.