Product Reliability Engineer, New Grad

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.

Product Reliability Engineers (PREs) are the driving forces of stability across Palantir’s products and help to ensure our products are available 24/7. When something goes wrong, we are the first to respond and are responsible for triaging, troubleshooting, and coordinating the resolution.

Every day at Palantir is different: we’re constantly evolving to better respond to customer needs, and as a PRE you will work closely with our engineering and business teams to minimize risks. You are a resourceful, creative, and agile problem solver who is able to work collaboratively and independently to resolve the most difficult and nebulous technical issues. This includes everything from creating product health metrics and automated alerts, to fixing product bugs, streamlining operational tasks, and developing and documenting strategies for responding to incidents.

Whatever the technical root cause of the issue is, you’ll play a central and critical role in resolving it — seeking not just a one-time fix, but a permanent solution. 

Core Responsibilities

• Develop a deep understanding of Palantir's products and processes.
• Collaborate with customer-facing, product, and infrastructure teams on the development and deployment of scalable, reliable software for our customers.
• Deliver end-to-end improvements to stability by proactively preventing issues via telemetry and automation and directly reducing the need for reactive support.
• Maintain and improve the operational capacity of our production databases, including resolving incidents and streamlining operational workflows.
• Reduce the operational overhead and make data-driven decisions about investments in stability and reliability.
• Take part in an on-call rotation responsible for coordinating Palantir’s response to critical incidents, ensuring efficient resolution with minimal customer impact.

What We Value

• Excellent problem solving skills, ability to break down and explain complex concepts, and strong attention to detail.
• Comfort working in a fast moving environment with dynamic objectives that require creative thinking to address product and customer needs.
• Ability to work both independently and make decisions autonomously, as well as collaborate as part of a distributed team with members from our offices across America and Europe
• Experience coding with Java, Go and/or web technologies (e.g. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python/Ruby, Django/Flask/Ruby on Rails, etc.) is a plus.
• Experience with distributed computing systems and/or cloud infrastructures (e.g. Spark, Hadoop, YARN, Kubernetes, AWS, etc.) is a plus.

What We Require

• Background in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or other technical field.

We want every Palantirian to achieve their best outcomes, that’s why we celebrate individuals’ strengths, skills, and interests, from your first interview to your longterm growth, rather than rely on traditional career ladders. Paying attention to the needs of our community enables us to optimize our opportunities to grow and helps ensure many pathways to success at Palantir. Promoting health and well-being across all areas of Palantirians’ lives is just one of the ways we’re investing in our community. Learn more at Life at Palantir and note that our offerings may vary by region.

In keeping consistent with Palantir’s values and culture, we believe employees are “better together” and in-person work affords the opportunity for more creative outcomes. Therefore, we encourage employees to work from our offices to foster connectivity and innovation. Many teams do offer hybrid options (WFH a day or two a week), allowing our employees to strike the right trade-off for their personal productivity. Based on business need, there are a few roles that allow for “Remote” work on an exceptional basis. If you are applying for one of these roles, you must work from the city and or country in which you are employed. If the posting is specified as Onsite, you are required to work from an office.

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