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.

We’re looking for a Site Reliability Engineer who can help our Database Operations team scale, maintain, operate, and modernize the databases behind Palantir’s products. 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 operating their services in production. In this role, you’ll work closely with engineers to design sensible, scalable systems and to diagnose, resolve, and prevent production issues.

Site Reliability Engineering exposes you to a broad range of products and business use cases, and builds operational and systems skills that are useful across the industry and in most engineering roles. Most of the work has implications for the entire fleet of Palantir environments, and therefore there is ample opportunity to improve the performance, stability, and costs at a very large scale.

Database Operations provides the majority of the support for Cassandra, Elasticsearch, and Kafka, along with their orchestrating services to ensure they operate as intended within Kubernetes, across a variety of clouds and on-premise, with varying degrees of access.