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Senior Software Engineer, Substrate

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Hybrid (London)Full-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer role on Palantir’s Substrate team, building and operating Palantir’s managed Kubernetes product offerings across on-prem, cloud, and edge environments, with a focus on automation, scale, security, and CNCF upstream collaboration.

Responsibilities

  • Deliver a container runtime to challenging new environment types - new clouds, on premise, edge devices
  • Build automation and establish standards for operating K8s securely at scale with zero manual ops overhead
  • Drive innovation through adoption of novel K8s features and CNCF tools, making upstream contributions as needed
  • Design the next generation of Palantir’s infrastructure through a deep understanding of internal systems and CNCF standards

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of professional software development experience on core infrastructure with emphasis on operational excellence
  • 2+ years of experience contributing to the system design or architecture of new and existing systems (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling)
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
  • Systems programming experience with strong proficiency in golang, C/C++ or equivalent
  • Working knowledge or hands on experience of infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Puppet or K8s operators, and competent coding in Go, Java, or equivalent for automation or scripting
  • Deep familiarity with hardware and OS configurations, diagnostic tooling, networking nuts and bolts
  • Deep familiarity with containers (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) at scale
  • Experience with cloud providers (AWS/Azure/GCE) or sysadmin/SRE in data centers
  • Experience designing, building, and operating high-scale observability or infrastructure systems
  • Working knowledge of networking fundamentals, CNIs or cloud networking infrastructure preferred

Skills

Required:Go (Golang)TerraformKubernetesDocker
Nice to have:C/C++AnsibleNetworkingObservabilityCloud platforms
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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