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.

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.

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, 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 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: