Senior Backend Software Engineer - Infrastructure
Palantir· Dev
Hybrid (New York, NY)$135k - $200kFull-timePosted 6mo ago
About the role
Senior Backend Software Engineer specializing in infrastructure for Palantir Foundry and Gotham, focused on building scalable, secure, and high-performance distributed systems and APIs within a hybrid, New York-based role.
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 demonstrated proficiency in programming languages, such as 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:Backend programmingDistributed systemsAPIs designCloud infrastructure
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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