Palantir
Software Engineer – Query Engines
New York, NY · Mid
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$2,717 more — $137,717 — moves this role to Level II and 2 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $137,717 would place this position at wage Level II. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
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About the role
- We encourage movement across teams to share context, skills, and experience, so you'll learn about many different technologies and aspects of each product.
- 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 organisation is made up of small teams of Software Engineers.
Responsibilities
- Backend Software Engineers at Palantir build software at scale to transform how organisations use data.
- Our Software Engineers are involved throughout the product lifecycle, from idea generation, design, prototyping, and production delivery.
- Each team focuses on a specific aspect of a product and work collaboratively to build cross functional capabilities, streamline user workflows and continuously improve our software's efficiency and reliability.
- If you're motivated to develop reliable, performant, and scalable systems, and to design robust APIs and primitives, this role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on our products and the people who use them.
- 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 and institutions.
- They work in small teams to own the end-to-end execution of high-stakes projects.
- Industry-standard build tooling, including Gradle, Cargo, and GitHub.
- Developing Foundry's Iceberg catalog and engine integrations, including table metadata, transactions, and efficient reads and writes
- Building shared transformation semantics and execution interfaces for workloads across Foundry's products and platform services
- Investigating correctness and performance issues across planning, execution, and storage, and building tests and benchmarks that prevent regressions
Requirements
- Experience contributing to open-source projects is valued, but not required.
- Strong coding skills with demonstrated proficiency in one or more languages such as Java, Rust, Scala, or C++.
Compensation
- Salary The estimated salary range for this position is estimated to be $135,000 - $200,000/year.
Benefits
- Experience building or extending systems such as Spark, DataFusion, Iceberg, or comparable technologies, and an interest in learning across the stack.
- Employees (and their eligible dependents) can enroll in medical, dental, and vision insurance as well as voluntary life insurance
- Employees are automatically covered by Palantir's basic life, AD&D and disability insurance
- Commuter benefits
Company info
- This unique, short-term assignment involves being embedded with customers, allowing you to work directly with users and gain firsthand insight into how our products are used and the challenges our customers face.
- 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 and our customers.
- By witnessing how customers engage with Foundry and experiencing these pain points firsthand, you'll gain unique insights that feed directly back into our development process, helping to refine and enhance our products.
- You will collaborate closely with technical and non-technical teammates to understand our customers' problems and build products that solve them.
- Engineers work autonomously and make decisions independently, within a community that will support and challenge you as you grow and develop, becoming a strong technical contributor and engineering leader.
This listing is sourced directly from Palantir's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.