Site Reliability Engineer

A World-Changing Company

Palantir builds the world’s leading software for data-driven decisions and 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, and more.

The Role

We’re looking for a Site Reliability Engineer who can help us build, operate, and maintain high-performance, scalable, and reliable services for our production infrastructure.

Site Reliability Engineers combine engineering experience and an innate drive to improve existing systems and processes, with the creativity to develop novel solutions to evolving challenges.

Our team strives to automate processes wherever possible, using whichever tools are best for the job.

We strongly believe in engineering teams being responsible for the operations of their services in production. In this role, you’ll work closely with engineers to advocate and participate in sensible, scalable, systems design and share responsibility with them in diagnosing, resolving, and preventing production issues.

Core Responsiblities

• Think about systems their edge cases, failure modes, and life cycles - and how to improve the long-term reliability and scalability of Palantir’s services.
• Design, build, and maintain core services and infrastructure used by Palantir.
• Participate in operations, including on-call rotations most business hours and every sixth weekend.
• Help debug, improve, and optimize Palantir’s services and infrastructure.

What We Value

• Confidence in troubleshooting complex systems issues independently using observability tools and stack traces.
• Ability to identify and automate highly manual tasks.
• Comfort with large scale production systems and technologies - for example, load balancing, monitoring, distributed systems, or configuration management.
• Ability to work with a high level of autonomy and responsibility in a rapidly changing environment with dynamic objectives and iteration with users.
• Demonstrated ability to continuously learn and drive ongoing improvements within and across teams.

What We Require

• Engineering background in Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics or similar field.
• Familiarity with storage and data processing systems, cloud infrastructure, and other technical tools.
• Familiarity with monitoring systems using tools like Prometheus and writing health checks.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to iterate quickly with teammates, incorporating feedback and holding a high bar for quality.
• Our benefits aim to promote health and wellbeing across all areas of Palantirians’ lives. We work to continuously improve our offerings and listen to our community as we design and update them.

The list below details our available benefits and some of the perks that can be enjoyed as an employee of Palantir Technologies.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Life and disability coverage
• Paid leave for new parents and emergency back-up care for all parents
• Family planning support, including fertility, adoption, and surrogacy assistance
• Stipend to help with expenses that come with a new child
• Commuter benefits
• Relocation assistance
• Unlimited paid time off
• 2 weeks paid time off built into the end of each year

Salary

The estimated salary range for this position is estimated to be $125,000 - $185,000 / year. 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.

This estimate excludes the value of any potential sign-on bonus; the value of any benefits offered; and the potential future value of any long-term incentives.