Mission Operations Software Engineer
Company: Palantir Technologies
Location: Edmonds
Posted on: May 16, 2022
Job Description:
A World-Changing CompanyAt Palantir, we're passionate about
building software that solves problems. We partner with the most
important institutions in the world to transform how they use data
and technology. Our software has been used to stop terrorist
attacks, discover new medicines, gain an edge in global financial
markets, and more. If these types of projects excite you, we'd love
for you to join us.The RoleAs a Mission Operations Engineer, you
will develop applications, automation, and data pipelines to
address pain points impacting critical internally and
externally-facing problems. You will work side-by-side with Forward
Deployed Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers, and internal
Support teams to to evolve Palantir's infrastructure, implement
process improvements, and craft custom tools to improve the
efficiency and scalability of critical business processes.On the
Mission Ops team, no week is quite like the last, but each project
starts with a problem statement, then follows through development,
deployment, and monitoring. You are empowered to own your projects
from end to end, iterating directly with users and teammates to
deliver technical outcomes that better our business. These outcomes
may range from custom applications, to open source tools, to
building on top of our core products to unlock Palantir's potential
for our own operations. Past projects have included:--- Implemented
solutions for automated provisioning of hundreds of Palantir
product stacks on bare metal systems.--- Built pipelines for
automatically deploying Stack Overflow Enterprise to AWS (see our
Medium Blog Post).--- Created a full-stack application to enable
the automatic assignment of support tickets to Palantir engineers
on a global scale.--- Delivered novel technical solutions for
demonstrating Palantir products live in the field at major
events.Core Responsibilities
- Design and build bespoke software products, adhering to best
practices for security and maintainability, while being driven by
business priorities.
- Contribute to the operations and maintenance of existing team
projects, providing bug fixes and requested features, and
remediating system outages during business hours.
- Become an expert in the Palantir Foundry platform, utilizing
PySpark and Typescript to build workflows analyzing business
data.
- Collaborate with both external and internal customers, and
vendors, to develop processes and software solutions that integrate
custom and public APIs to deliver diverse mission-critical business
services. Examples include automating complex logic for JIRA ticket
triage, server hardware procurement, and geographical map tiles
delivery.What We Value
- BS/MS in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or
equivalent experience (3-5 years in a technical / engineer
role)
- Proficiency programming in Java, Go, JavaScript or similar
- Experience with scripting and automation with Bash and/or
Python
- Practical experience of setting up a CI/CD pipeline, and
integration of automation technologies e.g. Jenkins, CircleCI,
Bamboo, Gitlab
- Experience with Cloud technologies and provisioning: e.g. AWS,
Azure, CGP, Kubernetes, Hashistack, Terraform
- Practical experience with Linux system administration (RHELor
CentOS preferred)
- Ability to creatively and analytically problem solve,
prioritizing reliability and security best practices
- Ability to collaborate with a cross-functional team, leveraging
effective communication and prioritization skillsPalantir is
committed to promoting a culture of diversity, equity, and
inclusion and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and
Affirmative Action employer. We believe that all Palantirians share
the responsibility of upholding our commitment to these values and
encourage candidates from a wide range of backgrounds,
perspectives, and lived experiences to join us in solving the
world's hardest problems. Palantir does not discriminate based upon
race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including
pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual
orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a
protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or
other applicable legally protected characteristics. Palantir is
committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations
to applicants with physical and mental disabilities. Please see the
United States Department of Labor's EEO poster and EEO poster
supplement for additional information.Palantir is committed to
making the job application process accessible to everyone. If you
are living with a disability (visible or not visible) and need to
request a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application
or hiring process, please reach out and let us know how we can
help.
Keywords: Palantir Technologies, Edmonds , Mission Operations Software Engineer, IT / Software / Systems , Edmonds, Washington
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