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Backend Software Engineer - Infrastructure, Foundations

Palantir· Engineering
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Hybrid (London)Full-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Backend Software Engineers at Palantir build scalable software across the product lifecycle, focusing on infrastructure and foundational capabilities that power Palantir Foundry and Gotham. The role emphasizes building performant, secure, and scalable systems, APIs, and primitives to enable complex data-driven products for public and private sector customers, with opportunities to work across teams and learn multiple technologies.

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
  • Automating the deployment, management, and operations of complex distributed systems like Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Kafka, and more across different environments

Qualifications

  • Engineering background in Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics or similar field
  • Strong coding skills with 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 programmingStorage and data processing
Nice to have:Distributed systems
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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