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Backend Software Engineer - Infrastructure

Palantir
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LondonFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Backend Software Engineers at Palantir build software at scale to transform how organizations use data. Work across the product lifecycle, collaborate with technical and non-technical teammates, and contribute to infrastructure powering Palantir Foundry and Gotham.

Responsibilities

  • Building a performant search and indexing ecosystem for complex granularly permissioned data
  • Contributing to open-source data processing libraries, integrating the latest innovations to achieve performance gains
  • Building the distributed systems that power large scale compute workloads, orchestrating and efficiently scheduling hundreds of thousands of containers every hour
  • Designing architecture and opinionated APIs to keep application developers on the happy path
  • Tracing and performance observability in high scale distributed microservice architectures
  • Building reliable, performant, and scalable systems for storage, auth, or asset serving to enable other product teams to build robust applications without deep domain expertise in the underlying systems
  • Automating the deployment, management, and operations of complex distributed systems like Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Kafka, and more across different environments

Qualifications

  • Engineering background in Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics or similar field
  • Strong coding skills with proficiency in programming languages such as Java, C++, Python, Rust, or similar languages
  • Familiarity with storage and data processing systems, cloud infrastructure, and other technical tools
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to iterate quickly with teammates, incorporating feedback and maintaining a high bar for quality

Skills

Required:Backend programmingStorage and data processingAPIs and software design
Nice to have:Distributed systems
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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