Job Overview
Location
New York, NY
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Backend Engineer
Date Posted
April 7, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • Senior Backend Software Engineer - Infrastructure role at Palantir Technologies Inc. focused on building foundational systems for the Foundry and Gotham platforms, enabling data-driven decision-making for critical institutions worldwide.
- • Day-to-day responsibilities include designing, prototyping, and delivering scalable backend systems; collaborating with technical and non-technical teammates; contributing high-quality code to database technologies, distributed systems, and application infrastructure; and working autonomously to solve complex problems in security, performance, and scalability.
- • Palantir is a world-changing company that builds software empowering organizations to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chains, locate missing children, and more — serving public and private sector clients globally through its Foundry and Gotham platforms.
- • The role offers opportunities to grow as a technical leader, gain deep expertise in infrastructure systems, participate in the exclusive Frontline program to work directly with customers, and move across teams to broaden technical impact and understanding of real-world product use.
🎯 Requirements
- • Expertise in backend software development with strong experience in distributed systems, databases, or large-scale data infrastructure.
- • Proficiency in building performant, secure, and scalable systems and APIs.
- • Ability to work autonomously, make independent technical decisions, and thrive in a collaborative, high-impact engineering culture.
🏖️ Benefits
- • Opportunity to participate in the Frontline program, embedding with customers to gain firsthand insight into real-world product use and challenges.
- • Work on software that powers critical missions in healthcare, defense, intelligence, and scientific research across the globe.
- • Collaborate in small, autonomous teams with freedom to innovate and ownership over end-to-end technical solutions.
Skills & Technologies
About Palantir Technologies Inc.
Palantir Technologies Inc. builds data integration and analytics platforms for large, complex organizations. Its Gotham, Foundry, and Apollo software connects disparate data sources, enabling defense, intelligence, government, and commercial clients to model operations, investigate threats, and optimize decisions. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado, the company offers both on-premises and cloud deployments with granular security controls to handle classified and sensitive information at scale.
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