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Software Engineer - Mission Manager

Palantir· Dev
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New York, NY$135k - $200kFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Palantir is hiring a Software Engineer to contribute to the Mission Manager, Palantir’s PaaS for US Government customers to deploy software securely across connected, disconnected, cloud, or edge environments. You will build robust APIs, work with Kubernetes controllers, and help scale an infrastructure-agnostic runtime in a Kubernetes-based ecosystem.

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with forward deployed and customer engineers to understand product gaps and identify both short- and long-term product improvements and fixes
  • Engage with and internalize Palantir’s infrastructure strategy and the needs of our customer stakeholders
  • Deeply understand and leverage K8s primitives, the broader OSS ecosystem around K8s, and highly technical service lifecycle semantics to solve business critical problems at scale
  • Build and evolve the APIs through which in-house and customer software developers interact with K8s to satisfy their runtime needs, cleanly abstracting away the complex distributed systems powering them
  • Work closely with your team and stakeholders to enable sustainable and timely delivery of technical solutions to address business needs
  • Champion a long-term tech roadmap to reduce operational burden, ensure scalability, reduce risk, and strive for step-changes whenever possible

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of professional software development experience
  • 1+ years of experience contributing to the system design or architecture of new and existing systems
  • 1+ years of experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
  • Strong coding skills in Go, Java, or equivalent
  • Experience designing, building, and operating high-scale observability or infrastructure systems
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Skills

Required:GoJavaKubernetesAPI designObservability/infrastructure systems

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and eligible dependents
  • Basic life, AD&D and disability insurance
  • Commuter benefits
  • Relocation assistance
  • Paid time off (2 weeks at end of each year)
  • 10 paid holidays per year
  • Leave programs including military, medical events, new parent leave and back-up care
  • Fertility and family building benefits including adoption, surrogacy, and preservation
  • Child-related expense stipend
  • 401k retirement plan participation
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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