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

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.

Our Product Development organization is made up of small teams of Software Engineers. Each team focuses on a specific aspect of a product. Our infrastructure teams are responsible for the lowest layers of our software stack, often focused on database technologies, distributed systems, large scale data systems, security, & application infrastructure. As a Software Engineer on infrastructure working on our Foundry platform, you'll contribute high-quality code to underpin Palantir Foundry & Gotham with performant, secure, & scalable building blocks, enabling products deployed to the most important institutions in the public & private sector. You'll build the foundational capabilities that power our products used by research scientists, aerospace engineers, intelligence analysts, & economic forecasters, in countries around the world.

We're hiring engineers who are passionate about solving real-world problems & empowering both developers & end-users to work optimally. If you're motivated to develop reliable, performant, & scalable systems, & to design robust APIs & primitives, this role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on our products & the people who use them.

Foundry Software Engineers may be offered the opportunity to Frontline, an exclusive program unlike any other. This unique, short-term assignment involves being embedded with customers, allowing you to work directly with users & gain firsthand insight into how our products are used & the challenges our customers face. Unlike traditional engineering roles, Frontline immerses you in complex, ambiguous problems, empowering you to deliver impactful solutions across some of the world's most important industries & institutions.

Some of our most successful products were built on the factory floor, addressing real-world problems for the world's most important institutions. These products were developed by some of our most successful product engineers, who began their careers in roles aligned with Frontline responsibilities, gaining a deep understanding of both our technology & our customers.

Frontliners operate across a broad spectrum of responsibilities, much like a startup CTO. They work in small teams to own the end-to-end execution of high-stakes projects. This spectrum ranges from discussing architecture & building custom web apps to conducting workshops with users & strategizing with customer executives. No two days are alike, as each day is diverse & impactful. By witnessing how customers engage with Foundry & experiencing these pain points firsthand, you'll gain unique insights that feed directly back into our development process, helping to refine & enhance our products.