Hiring: Backend Software Engineer - Infrastructure Company: Palantir Technologies Location: New York, NY Job Posted Time: 2026-09-17 12:20:19 Employment Type: Remote Target Skills & Keywords : C++, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Embedded Systems, Flink, Foundry, GitHub, Gradle, Java, Kafka, Kubernetes, Microservices, Python, Rust, Security Clearance, Spark About the job Required Skills: •Building a performant search and indexing ecosystem for complex granularly permissioned data •Contributing to open-source data processing libraries, integrating the latest innovations to achieve performance gains •Building the distributed systems that power large scale compute workloads, orchestrating and efficiently scheduling hundreds of thousands of containers every hour •Designing architecture and opinionated APIs to keep application developers on the happy path •Tracing and performance observability in high scale distributed microservice architectures •Building reliant, performant, and scalable systems for storage, auth, or asset serving to enable other product teams to build robust applications without deep domain expertise in the underlying systems •Automating the deployment, management, and operations of complex distributed systems like Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Kafka, and more across different environments Compensation: •$135,000 - $200,000 / year •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) •Total compensation for this position may also include Restricted Stock units, sign-on bonus and other potential future incentives Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!