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Site Reliability Engineer - US Government

Palantir· Engineering
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Hybrid (Washington, DC)$125k - $185kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Site Reliability Engineers who can build, operate, and maintain high-performance, scalable, and reliable services for Palantir’s production infrastructure across cloud and on-prem environments, with a focus on air-gapped deployments and close collaboration with product teams to design, deploy, and operate reliable systems.

Responsibilities

  • Maintaining availability of cloud & physical Linux servers that power the Palantir platform in air-gapped production environments
  • Design, deploy, and operate infrastructure to support customer & product requirements via modern orchestration & monitoring platforms
  • Collaborate closely with product teams on requirements & SLOs for deploying software into air-gapped environments
  • Identifying, troubleshooting, and solving network & systems issues
  • Scripting to automate away routine operational tasks
  • Provide technical troubleshooting support for production issues, ensuring timely resolution and minimal impact on operations. Participate in a support on-call schedule

Qualifications

  • Active security clearance
  • 4+ years of experience with Linux system administration (RHEL or equivalent preferred)
  • Experience with cloud-based hosting platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP and/or experience with hardware-based environments
  • Familiarity with monitoring systems using tools like Prometheus and writing health checks
  • Proficiency with at least one programming language, such as Java, Go, Python, JavaScript, Bash, or similar languages
  • Strong engineering background, preferred in fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, and Data Science

Skills

Required:Linux system administrationCloud platformsMonitoring & health checksProgrammingSecurity clearance

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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