Palantir
Software Engineer, New Grad - Query Engines
New York, NY · Junior
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About the role
- We are a software engineering team applying open-source data technologies to some of the world's hardest and most important problems.
- You will work deep inside the systems that make this possible: how computations are represented, how query plans are optimized, how operators execute, and how data is read and written efficiently.
- Our work serves many products and workloads across Foundry, including no-code pipelines, interactive analysis, and the processing that keeps the Ontology up to date.
Responsibilities
- You will see your work through design, code review, testing, and release.
- Correctness, compatibility, and predictable performance are central to everything we build, and you will learn how to deliver all three.
- Gradle and Cargo for builds, and GitHub for collaboration
Requirements
- You do not need prior experience with these technologies.
Nice to have
- and the potential future value of any long-term incentives.
Skills
- The list below details our available benefits and some of the perks that can be enjoyed as an employee of Palantir Technologies.
Compensation
- Total compensation for this position may also include Restricted Stock units, sign-on bonus and other potential future incentives.
- Further note that total compensation for this position will be determined by each individual's relevant qualifications, work experience, skills, and other factors.
Benefits
- 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
- Take what you need paid time off, not accrual based
- 2 weeks paid time off built into the end of each year (subject to team and business needs)
- Supportive leave of absence program including time off for military service and medical events
- Paid leave for new parents and subsidized back-up care for all parents
Company info
- The Role We are a software engineering team applying open-source data technologies to some of the world's hardest and most important problems.
- We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer for all, including but not limited to Veterans and those with disabilities.
- We build on and extend Apache Spark, Apache DataFusion, and Apache Iceberg, bringing advances in open-source engines and table formats into the demanding environments our customers operate in.
- We work to continuously improve our offerings and listen to our community as we design and update them.
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