Site Reliability Engineer

5 months ago

Sydney, Australia Palantir Technologies Full time
A World-Changing Company 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. The Role We’re looking for a Site Reliability Engineer who can help our Database Operations team scale, maintain, operate, and modernize the databases behind Palantir’s products. Site Reliability Engineers combine engineering experience and an innate drive to improve existing systems and processes with the creativity to develop novel solutions to evolving challenges. Our team strives to automate processes wherever possible, using whichever tools are best for the job.We strongly believe in engineering teams being responsible for operating their services in production. In this role, you’ll work closely with engineers to design sensible, scalable systems and to diagnose, resolve, and prevent production issues.Site Reliability Engineering exposes you to a broad range of products and business use cases, and builds operational and systems skills that are useful across the industry and in most engineering roles. Most of the work has implications for the entire fleet of Palantir environments, and therefore there is ample opportunity to improve the performance, stability, and costs at a very large scale. Technologies We Use Database Operations provides the majority of the support for Cassandra, Elasticsearch, and Kafka, along with their orchestrating services to ensure they operate as intended within Kubernetes, across a variety of clouds and on-premise, with varying degrees of access.

Core Responsibilities

Build expertise on pre-existing systems — their edge cases, failure modes, and life cycles - and how to improve the 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. Troubleshoot and debug 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 - for example, load balancing, monitoring, distributed systems, or configuration management. Ability to work with a high level of autonomy and responsibility in a rapidly changing environment with dynamic objectives and iteration with users. Demonstrated ability to develop improvements to services.

What We Require

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, incorporating feedback and holding a high bar for quality. Life at Palantir 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 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.Palantir is committed to promoting a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion. 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 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 and let us know how we can help.

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