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Software Engineer - Mission Manager

Palantir· Dev
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Hybrid (Seattle, WA)$135k - $200kFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Palantir’s Mission Manager is a PaaS for enabling US Government customers and vendors to run software securely and compliantly in sensitive environments, with Kubernetes-based infrastructure and a secure runtime for hundreds of microservices.

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 (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) 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:GoJavaKubernetesDistributed systems

Benefits

  • Employees (and their eligible dependents) can enroll in medical, dental, and vision insurance as well as voluntary life insurance
  • Employees are automatically covered by Palantir’s basic life, AD&D and disability insurance
  • Commuter benefits
  • Relocation assistance
  • Take what you need paid time off, not accrual based
  • 2 weeks paid time off built into the end of each year (subject to team and business needs)
  • 10 paid holidays throughout the calendar year
  • Supportive leave of absence program including time off for military service and medical events
  • Paid leave for new parents and subsidized back-up care for all parents
  • Fertility and family building benefits including but not limited to adoption, surrogacy, and preservation
  • Stipend to help with expenses that come with a new child
  • Employees can enroll in Palantir’s 401k plan
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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