Software Engineer - Apollo Platform

Palantir Technologies builds software for data-driven decisions and operations. The company is seeking a Software Engineer to build and maintain the Apollo platform, which enables autonomous software management and continuous deployment across cloud, on-premise, disconnected, and edge environments. The role involves designing, shipping, debugging, and improving mission-critical distributed systems in collaboration with technical and non-technical teams.

What you'll do:

• Build and maintain highly available systems responsible for orchestration of software deployment across hundreds of production environments
• Engage and solve problems that customers need today with a tight feedback loop for what is important and what works
• Working directly with other teams to solve problems that cross the team boundary
• Debug complex issues and performance problems throughout the stack

What they're looking for:

• - Some familiarity with containers (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
• - Experience developing and managing highly-available distributed systems
• - Demonstrated success building systems that meet requirements around monitoring, stability, and scalability
• - Experience building high-quality software in a fast-paced CI/CD development environment
• - Experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Math, Physics or or similar field
• - Strong software developer with demonstrated proficiency in programming languages, such as Java, Golang, C++, or equivalent
• - Demonstrated ability to learn and work independently and make good decisions with minimal direction
• - Strong written and verbal communication skills
• - Great problem solving skills with ability to evolve complex systems

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
• 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