Palantir builds the world's leading software for data-driven decisions & operations. Our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, & more by bringing the right data to the people who need it.

Backend Software Engineers at Palantir build software at scale to transform how organizations use data. Our Software Engineers are involved throughout the product lifecycle, from idea generation, design, prototyping, & production delivery. You will collaborate closely with technical & non-technical teammates to understand our customers' problems & build products that solve them. We encourage movement across teams to share context, skills, & experience, so you'll learn about many different technologies & aspects of each product. Engineers work autonomously & make decisions independently, within a community that will support & challenge you as you grow & develop, becoming a strong technical contributor & engineering leader.

Your day-to-day workflow will vary, adapting to the requirements of our users & the technical challenges that arise. One day, you may find yourself collaborating with other engineers to architect a new system that enables a novel workflow, the next you could be fine-tuning performance to enable low-latency operational outcomes.

Our Product Development organization is made up of small teams of Software Engineers. Each team focuses on a specific aspect of a product & work collaboratively to build cross functional capabilities, streamline user workflows & continuously improve our software's efficiency & reliability.

We're hiring engineers who are passionate about solving real-world problems & empowering developers & end-users to do their work optimally. If you're motivated to develop reliable, performant, scalable systems & design robust APIs & primitives, below are some examples of the types of product work you'd get to do in this role: