Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer, Internship

Core Responsibilities

• Deploy and operate Palantir software across production environments, including monitoring, alerting, configuration management, and upgrades.
• Debug, improve, and optimize Palantir’s services and infrastructure with a focus on long-term reliability and scalability.
• Reduce manual operations by automating workflows, processes, and runbooks wherever possible.
• Develop novel solutions in Palantir’s Foundry and Apollo platforms to solve infrastructure challenges.
• Work in small teams with minimal supervision and own end-to-end execution of real infrastructure projects.
• Discuss systems architecture, debug production issues, build automation, and deploy new products.

What We Value

• Ability to continuously learn, work independently, and make decisions with minimal direction.
• Confidence troubleshooting complex systems issues using observability tools and service logs.
• Comfort with large-scale production systems and technologies such as load balancing, monitoring, distributed systems, or configuration management.
• Ability to identify and automate highly manual tasks, driving ongoing improvements within and across teams.
• Eagerness to creatively solve technical problems using cloud infrastructure, storage systems, and other infrastructure tooling.
• Ability to collaborate across teams of technical and non-technical individuals in a constantly evolving environment with dynamic objectives.

What We Require

• Active US Security clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain a US Security clearance prior to start of internship.
• Engineering background, preferred in fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, and Data Science.
• Strong proficiency with one or more programming languages, such as Python, Java, Go, C++, TypeScript/JavaScript, or similar.
• Must be planning on graduating in 2028. This should be your final internship before graduating.