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The Role
The Site Reliability Engineer will maintain high-performance cloud and on-premises services, automate tasks, troubleshoot production issues, and collaborate with product teams.
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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 Site Reliability Engineers who can help us build, operate, and maintain high-performance, scalable, and reliable services for our production infrastructure, across both cloud & on-prem environments. 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. You’ll be the experts for the environments that you operate infrastructure in, helping partner teams build & configure their software to operate reliably within.
We strongly believe in engineering teams being responsible for the operations of their services in production. In this role, you’ll work closely with engineers to advocate and participate in sensible, scalable, systems design and share responsibility with them in diagnosing, resolving, and preventing production issues.
Core Responsibilities
- Maintaining availability of cloud & physical Linux servers that power the Palantir platform in air-gapped production environments
- Design, deploy, and operate infrastructure to support customer & product requirements via modern orchestration & monitoring platforms.
- Collaborate closely with product teams on requirements & SLOs for deploying software into air-gapped environments.
- Identifying, troubleshooting, and solving network & systems issues
- Scripting to automate away routine operational tasks
- Provide technical troubleshooting support for production issues, ensuring timely resolution and minimal impact on operations. Participate in a support on-call schedule
What We Value
- Confidence in troubleshooting complex systems issues independently using stack traces and observability & systems tools
- Comfort with managing large scale production systems and technologies with configuration management, load balancing, monitoring & alerting infrastructure, and container orchestration
- Demonstrated ability to continuously learn and work independently, making decisions with minimal supervision while working in secure facilities
- Experience with containers (Docker/Podman) and orchestration (OpenShift/Kubernetes) at scale is a plus
- Preferred Certifications: DOD 8570 IAT Level II or greater (CISSP, Sec+), Unix/Linux Computing Environment (e.g Linux+, RHCE)
What We Require
- Active security clearance
- 4+ years of experience with Linux system administration (RHEL or equivalent preferred)
- Experience with cloud-based hosting platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP and/or experience with hardware-based environments
- Familiarity with monitoring systems using tools like Prometheus and writing health checks
- Proficiency with at least one programming language, such as Java, Go, Python, JavaScript, Bash, or similar languages.
- Strong engineering background, preferred in fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, and Data Science
Salary
The estimated salary range for this position is estimated to be $125,000 - $185,000/year. Total compensation for this position may also include Restricted Stock units, sign-on bonus and other potential future incentives. Further note that total compensation for this position will be determined by each individual’s relevant qualifications, work experience, skills, and other factors. This estimate excludes the value of any potential sign-on bonus; the value of any benefits offered; and the potential future value of any long-term incentives.
Our benefits aim to promote health and wellbeing across all areas of Palantirians’ lives. We work to continuously improve our offerings and listen to our community as we design and update them. The list below details our available benefits and some of the perks that can be enjoyed as an employee of Palantir Technologies.
Benefits
• Employees (and their eligible dependents) can enroll in medical, dental, and vision insurance as well as voluntary life insurance
• Employees are automatically covered by Palantir’s basic life, AD&D and disability insurance
• Commuter benefits
• Relocation assistance
• Take what you need paid time off, not accrual based
• 2 weeks paid time off built into the end of each year (subject to team and business needs)
• 10 paid holidays throughout the calendar year
• Supportive leave of absence program including time off for military service and medical events
• Paid leave for new parents and subsidized back-up care for all parents
• Fertility and family building benefits including but not limited to adoption, surrogacy, and preservation
• Stipend to help with expenses that come with a new child
• Employees can enroll in Palantir’s 401k plan
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 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 state in which you are employed. If the posting is specified as Onsite, you are required to work from an office.
If you want to empower the world's most important institutions, you belong here. Palantir values excellence regardless of background. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer for all, including but not limited to Veterans and those with disabilities. Palantir is committed to making the application and hiring process accessible to everyone and will provide a reasonable accommodation for those living with a disability. If you need an accommodation for the application or hiring process, please reach out and let us know how we can help.
Please note that you will never be asked to submit a payment or share financial information to participate in our interview process. If you suspect that you've been contacted by a scammer, we recommend you cease all communication with the individual and consider reporting them to the relevant authorities, such as the US FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3).
If you would like to understand more about how your personal data will be processed by Palantir, please see our Privacy Policy.
If you would like to understand more about how your personal data will be processed by Palantir, please see our Privacy Policy.
Skills Required
- 4+ years of experience with Linux system administration
- Active security clearance
- Experience with cloud-based hosting platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Proficiency with at least one programming language, such as Java, Go, Python, JavaScript, Bash
- Experience with containers (Docker/Podman) and orchestration (OpenShift/Kubernetes) at scale
- Familiarity with monitoring systems using tools like Prometheus
Palantir Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive for core engineering and other key technical roles, with total compensation that compares favorably in major markets. Offers for these functions are often viewed as market-aligned and materially attractive.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive and high quality, contributing meaningfully to overall compensation satisfaction. Coverage breadth and employer support for medical needs are consistently emphasized in benefits descriptions.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity forms a significant part of the package, providing meaningful upside through RSUs and related awards over multi-year schedules. When aligned with tenure and company performance, realized value can feel compelling.
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The Company
What We Do
At Palantir, we're helping the world's most important institutions use their data to solve their most urgent problems. Palantir software helps the world's most important institutions integrate, analyze, and act on their data — unlocking answers to questions they couldn't ask before. From delivering disaster relief to building safer automobiles, we're honored to help make our partners better at their most important work. Together with our customers, we're building the future of national security, healthcare, energy, finance, manufacturing, and more.
Why Work With Us
We build the software that powers the world's most important institutions — the hospitals, militaries, intelligence agencies, and industrial operators that can't afford to fail. The consequence of our work is what makes us different.
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