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Senior Backend Software Engineer - Infrastructure

Palantir· Dev
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Hybrid (London)Full-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Palantir builds data-driven software. As a Senior Backend Software Engineer focusing on infrastructure, you’ll build scalable, secure building blocks for Palantir Foundry and Gotham, contributing to low-level data systems, APIs, and distributed infrastructure.

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

  • 6+ years of experience designing, building, and operating scalable and reliable infrastructure systems in a production environment
  • Engineering background in Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics or similar field
  • Strong coding skills with proficiency in 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 holding a high bar for quality

Skills

Required:Distributed systems designAPIs designSearch and indexingPerformance observabilityJava/C++/Python/Rust

Benefits

  • Life at Palantir: opportunities for growth and well-being, in-person collaboration with hybrid options, region-dependent offerings
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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