Software Engineer - Environment Platform
Develops APIs and Kubernetes controllers to enable containerization across Palantir platforms like Foundry, Gotham, Apollo for diverse infrastructures. Requires 3+ years software experience, Go/Java proficiency, system design, and bachelor's in CS.
About the job
Core Responsibilities
- Engage with and internalize Palantir’s infrastructure strategy and the needs of your team’s customer base.
- 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 as well as third-party 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.
- 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.
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.
Skills
Kubernetes, Go, Java, APIs, Distributed Systems, Observability, Infrastructure Systems
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