High Performance Systems Engineer

1 week ago


Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Palantir Technologies Full time
Palantir Technologies Site Reliability Engineer

We are seeking a skilled Site Reliability Engineer to join our Database Operations team at Palantir Technologies. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will play a critical role in scaling, maintaining, operating, and modernizing the databases behind our products.

About Us

Palantir is a world-changing company that builds leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. Our platforms empower partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more.

The Role

You will work closely with engineers to design sensible, scalable systems and diagnose, resolve, and prevent production issues. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will be exposed to a broad range of products and business use cases, building operational and systems skills useful across the industry.

Key Responsibilities
  • Build expertise on pre-existing systems, their edge cases, failure modes, and life cycles, and improve long-term reliability and scalability of Palantir's services.
  • Modify core services and infrastructure to improve stability and performance.
  • Participate in operations, including on-call rotations during business hours and occasional weekends, troubleshooting and debugging availability and latency of Palantir's databases and their clients.
  • Modernize the fleet by migrating infrastructure, upgrading major versions, and right-sizing to optimize cost and performance.
What We Value
  • Confidence in troubleshooting complex issues independently using observability tools and stack traces.
  • Ability to identify and remove toil.
  • Comfortable with and curious about large-scale production systems and technologies.
  • Ability to work with a high level of autonomy and responsibility in a rapidly changing environment.
  • Demonstrated ability to develop improvements to services.
Requirements
  • Engineering background in Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, or similar field.
  • Familiarity with storage and data processing systems, cloud infrastructure, and other technical tools.
  • Familiarity with monitoring systems using tools like Prometheus and writing health checks.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to iterate quickly with teammates.
Estimated Salary: $140,000 - $200,000 per yearLocation: United States

Promoting health and well-being across all areas of Palantirians' lives is just one of the ways we're investing in our community. 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.

Palantir is committed to promoting a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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