Software Engineer, Internship - Infrastructure

About the role

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.

As an intern within Palantir’s Foundations organization, you’ll have the opportunity to grow quickly while building the shared infrastructure that underpins the Palantir Foundry, Palantir Gotham, and Palantir Apollo platforms. You’ll drive investments to improve the velocity and quality of our engineering.

Teams

Foundations is made up of small engineering teams, each focused on one of four major categories of our infrastructure:

• Backend Infrastructure: Maximizes the productivity of our backend developers and ensures Palantir’s platforms have performant and consistent RESTful services. Examples include designing infrastructure to build hundreds of microservice repos performantly and ensuring reliable audit logs of everything users do in our platforms.
• Developer Infrastructure: Operates the systems and services that underpin all aspects of our developer ecosystem, including off-the-shelf tooling like GitHub and custom tooling for managing automated changes across hundreds of repositories.
• Frontend Infrastructure: Maximizes frontend developer productivity across the entire stack, from the developer experience in the IDE to the final user experience in the browser. Examples include core infrastructure for features flags, internationalization, commit previews, performant build tooling for millions of lines of TypeScript, and the Blueprint open-source UI framework.
• Storage Infrastructure: Develops Palantir’s database and search systems, supporting storage technologies across cloud, on-premise, and classified or secure environments. This includes evolving existing technologies to support increasing data scale and latency requirements and designing the next evolution of our database offering.

Responsibilities

• Build features to improve the developer experience for other Palantir engineers.
• Improve the scalability and reliability of Palantir’s platforms.
• Participate throughout the product lifecycle, from idea generation and design to execution and rollout.
• Collaborate closely with technical and non-technical counterparts to understand developers' and customers' problems and build infrastructure to address them.

Skills

It doesn’t matter what languages you know when you join us, but it does matter that you can write clean, effective code and learn new languages quickly. Our software is constantly evolving, so we need engineers who can do the same.

Right now, we use:

• Varying languages, including Java and Go for backend and TypeScript for frontend.
• Open-source technologies like Cassandra, Spark, Elasticsearch, React, and Redux.
• Industry-standard build tooling, including Gradle, CircleCI, and GitHub.

What we value:

• Passion for helping other developers build better applications.
• Empathy for the impact your changes will have on the workflows and productivity of developers and end users.
• Ability to communicate and collaborate with a variety of individuals, including engineers, users, and non-technical team members.
• Willingness to learn and make decisions independently, and the ability to ask questions when needed.
• Active US Security clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain one.

Requirements

• Engineering background in fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, or Physics.
• Familiarity with data structures, storage systems, cloud infrastructure, front-end frameworks, and other technical tools.
• Experience coding in programming languages, such as Java, C++, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, or similar.
• Must be planning on graduating in 2028. This should be your final internship before graduating.

Pay

The estimated salary range for this position is $10,500/month. Total compensation will be determined by each individual’s relevant qualifications, work experience, skills, and other factors. This estimate excludes the value of any benefits offered and the potential future value of any long-term incentives.

Schedule

In keeping with Palantir’s values and culture, we encourage employees to work from our offices to foster connectivity and innovation. Many teams offer hybrid options (WFH a day or two a week), allowing employees to strike the right trade-off for their personal productivity. Some roles may allow for "Remote" work on an exceptional basis, while others are specified as Onsite.