Software Engineer - Mission Manager

Core 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

What We Value

Clear and concise verbal and written communications

A focus on impact and an ability to articulate the value your work provides

Confidence in troubleshooting complex systems issues independently using observability tools and service logs

Experience developing and managing highly-available distributed systems

Passion for designing thoughtful and robust APIs

Deep familiarity with K8s, and the broader ecosystem of software around K8s

Active US Security clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain a US Security clearance

What We Require

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