Software Engineer, Internship, Infrastructure

About the Role

As an intern within Palantir’s Foundations organization, you will build the shared infrastructure that underpins the Palantir Foundry, Palantir Gotham, and Palantir Apollo platforms. You will drive investments to improve the velocity and quality of engineering.

Teams within Palantir’s Foundations Organization

• Backend Infrastructure: Maximizes the productivity of backend developers and ensures platforms have performant and consistent RESTful services.
• Developer Infrastructure: Operates systems and services for the developer ecosystem, including GitHub and custom tooling for managing automated changes.
• Frontend Infrastructure: Maximizes frontend developer productivity across the entire frontend development stack, including features like feature flags, internationalization, and commit previews.
• Storage Infrastructure: Develops Palantir’s database and search systems, supporting storage technologies across cloud, on-premise, and classified or secure environments.

Core Responsibilities

• Build features to improve the developer experience for other Palantir engineers.
• Improve the scalability and reliability of Palantir’s platforms.
• Be involved throughout the product lifecycle, from idea generation and design, to execution and rollout.
• Collaborate closely with technical and non-technical counterparts to understand developer and customer problems and build infrastructure to solve them.

Technologies We Use

• Backend: Java, Go
• Frontend: TypeScript
• Open-source technologies: Cassandra, Spark, Elasticsearch, React, Redux
• Build tooling: Gradle, CircleCI, GitHub

What We Value

• Passion for helping other developers build better applications.
• Empathy for the impact of your changes on developer and end-user workflows and productivity.
• Ability to communicate and collaborate with engineers, users, and non-technical team members.
• Willingness to learn and make decisions independently.
• Active US Security clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain one.

Requirements

• Engineering background in fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, or Physics.
• Familiarity with data structures, storage systems, cloud infrastructure, front-end frameworks, and other technical tools.
• Experience coding in programming languages, such as Java, C++, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, or similar.
• Must be planning on graduating in 2028 and this should be your final internship before graduating.

To Apply

• An updated resume / CV in PDF format.
• Thoughtful responses to application questions.

Estimated salary range: $10,500/month.