Senior Software Engineer - Observability

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

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be directly responsible for Palantir’s observability platform. This includes everything from log/metric/trace ingestion and processing, monitoring and alerting solutions, and all other workflows on top of the observability data. This role will have a direct impact on Palantir’s ability to scale our engineering efforts through these investments.

You have a deep systems background and value technical excellence, and consistently raise the bar for your team’s technical execution. You know how to balance providing value to your users while building defensive systems that are operationally sound and easy to maintain. Core Responsibilities Partner with our extended leadership team to set and define a technical strategy for your team aligned with the wider team strategy.

Build and champion a long-term tech roadmap to reduce operational burden, ensure scalability, reduce risk, and guide your team towards step-changes whenever possible. Be technically involved and engage in substantive discussion when reviewing technical roadmaps and project implementation with the team. Work closely with teammates and stakeholders to enable sustainable and timely delivery of technical solutions to address business needs.