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Backend Software Engineer - Application Development

Palantir · New York, NY

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   Backend Software Engineers at Palantir build software at scale to transform how organisations use data. Our Software Engineers are involved throughout the product lifecycle, from idea generation, design, prototyping, and production delivery. You will collaborate closely with technical and non-technical teammates to understand our customers' problems and build products that solve them. We encourage movement across teams to share context, skills, and experience, so you'll learn about many different technologies and aspects of each product. Engineers work autonomously and make decisions independently, within a community that will support and challenge you as you grow and develop, becoming a strong technical contributor and engineering leader.   Your day-to-day workflow will vary, adapting to the requirements of our users and the technical challenges that arise. One day, you may find yourself collaborating with other engineers to architect a new system that enables a novel workflow, the next you could be fine-tuning performance to enable low-latency operational outcomes.   Our Product Development organisation is made up of small teams of Software Engineers. Each team focuses on a specific aspect of a product and work collaboratively to build cross functional capabilities, streamline user workflows and continuously improve our software's efficiency and reliability.   We’re hiring engineers who are passionate about solving real-world problems and empowering both developers and end-users to work optimally. If you’re motivated to develop reliable, performant, and scalable systems, and to design robust APIs and primitives, this role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on our products and the people who use them.   Frontline   Foundry Software Engineers may be offered the opportunity to Frontline, an exclusive program unlike any other. This unique, short-term assignment involves being embedded with customers, allowing you to work directly with users and gain firsthand insight into how our products are used and the challenges our customers face. Unlike traditional engineering roles, Frontline immerses you in complex, ambiguous problems, empowering you to deliver impactful solutions across some of the world’s most important industries and institutions.   Some of our most successful products were built on the factory floor, addressing real-world problems for the world's most important institutions. These products were developed by some of our most successful product engineers, who began their careers in roles aligned with Frontline responsibilities, gaining a deep understanding of both our technology and our customers.   Frontliners operate across a broad spectrum of responsibilities, much like a startup CTO. They work in small teams to own the end-to-end execution of high-stakes projects. This spectrum ranges from discussing architecture and building custom web apps to conducting workshops with users and strategizing with customer executives. No two days are alike, as each day is diverse and impactful. By witnessing how customers engage with Foundry and experiencing these pain points firsthand, you’ll gain unique insights that feed directly back into our development process, helping to refine and enhance our products. Core Responsiblities • Architecting, developing, and maintaining high-performance, scalable backend services that underpin our our operational data and AI systems • Maintaining high coding standards through the development of guidelines, active participation in code reviews, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and knowledge sharing among your team • Building robust APIs for use by front-end developers and interfacing external systems, and collaborating with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic • Designing efficient data structures and algorithms to manage large-scale and high throughput data • Optimizing applications for speed and scalability through performance analysis • Actively improve user workflows by collaborating with cross-functional teams, ensuring seamless experiences across product boundaries and a cohesive user experience Technologies We Use • Different backend languages, including Java, Rust, Python and Go • Distributed systems technologies such as Kafka, Cassandra, Elasticsearch and Spark • Docker and Kubernetes for containerization and orchestration • Industry-standard build tooling, including Gradle and GitHub What We Value • A deep understanding of server-side logic, efficient data handling, and distributed systems • Strong focus on creating user-oriented workflows and solutions, crossing product boundaries to deliver cohesive and solid user workflows that ensure a seamless and intuitive user experience • Experience building high-quality software in a fast-paced CI/CD development environment • Ability to work collaboratively in teams of technical and non-technical individuals and understand how technical decisions impact the people who will use what you're building • Skill and comfort working in a constantly evolving environment with dynamic objectives and iteration with users • Active US Security clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain a US Security clearance is beneficial but not necessary What We Require • Experience in designing and developing features and improvements, as well as supporting and maintaining, live backend systems • In-depth understanding of data structures, system architecture, API development for microservices frameworks, distributed systems and other backend-related concepts and best practices • Engineering background in Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics or similar field • Strong coding skills with demonstrated proficiency in programming languages, such as Java, C++, Python, Rust, or similar languages • Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to iterate quickly with teammates, incorporating feedback and holding a high bar for quality

Backend Software Engineer - Infrastructure

Palantir · New York, NY

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   Software Engineers at Palantir build software at scale to transform how organizations use data. Our Software Engineers are involved throughout the product lifecycle, from idea generation, design, prototyping, and production delivery. You will collaborate closely with technical and non-technical teammates to understand our customers' problems and build products that solve them. We encourage movement across teams to share context, skills, and experience, so you'll learn about many different technologies and aspects of each product. Engineers work autonomously and make decisions independently, within a community that will support and challenge you as you grow and develop, becoming a strong technical contributor and engineering leader.   Our Product Development organization is made up of small teams of Software Engineers. Each team focuses on a specific aspect of a product. Our infrastructure teams are responsible for the lowest layers of our software stack, often focused on database technologies, distributed systems, large scale data systems, security, and application infrastructure. As a Software Engineer on infrastructure working on our Foundry platform, you'll contribute high-quality code to underpin Palantir Foundry and Gotham with performant, secure, and scalable building blocks, enabling products deployed to the most important institutions in the public and private sector. You'll build the foundational capabilities that power our products used by research scientists, aerospace engineers, intelligence analysts, and economic forecasters, in countries around the world.   We’re hiring engineers who are passionate about solving real-world problems and empowering both developers and end-users to work optimally. If you’re motivated to develop reliable, performant, and scalable systems, and to design robust APIs and primitives, this role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on our products and the people who use them.   Frontline   Foundry Software Engineers may be offered the opportunity to Frontline, an exclusive program unlike any other. This unique, short-term assignment involves being embedded with customers, allowing you to work directly with users and gain firsthand insight into how our products are used and the challenges our customers face. Unlike traditional engineering roles, Frontline immerses you in complex, ambiguous problems, empowering you to deliver impactful solutions across some of the world’s most important industries and institutions.   Some of our most successful products were built on the factory floor, addressing real-world problems for the world's most important institutions. These products were developed by some of our most successful product engineers, who began their careers in roles aligned with Frontline responsibilities, gaining a deep understanding of both our technology and our customers.   Frontliners operate across a broad spectrum of responsibilities, much like a startup CTO. They work in small teams to own the end-to-end execution of high-stakes projects. This spectrum ranges from discussing architecture and building custom web apps to conducting workshops with users and strategizing with customer executives. No two days are alike, as each day is diverse and impactful. By witnessing how customers engage with Foundry and experiencing these pain points firsthand, you’ll gain unique insights that feed directly back into our development process, helping to refine and enhance our products. Core Responsibilities • Building a performant search and indexing ecosystem for complex granularly permissioned data • Contributing to open-source data processing libraries, integrating the latest innovations to achieve performance gains • Building the distributed systems that power large scale compute workloads, orchestrating and efficiently scheduling hundreds of thousands of containers every hour • Designing architecture and opinionated APIs to keep application developers on the happy path • Tracing and performance observability in high scale distributed microservice architectures • Building reliant, performant, and scalable systems for storage, auth, or asset serving to enable other product teams to build robust applications without deep domain expertise in the underlying systems • Automating the deployment, management, and operations of complex distributed systems like Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Kafka, and more across different environments Technologies We Use • Different backend languages, including Java, Rust, and Go • Open-source technologies like Cassandra, ElasticSearch, Spark, Kafka, Kubernetes, Flink • Industry-standard build tooling, including Gradle and GitHub What We Value • Demonstrated ability to collaborate and empathize with a variety of individuals. Able to iterate with users and non-technical stakeholders and understand how technical decisions impact them. • Ability to learn new technology and concepts, even without in-depth experience. Experience developing and managing highly-available distributed systems is beneficial, but not required. • Bias towards quality and thoughtful about edge cases (“anything that can go wrong will go wrong”); writes code that is defensive against all possibilities. • Builds solutions and APIs with users in mind while maintaining a high engineering bar. Seeks to centralize and abstract complexity away from our users in order to expose simple, powerful APIs for consumers. • Active US Security clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain a US Security clearance is beneficial, but not necessary. What We Require • Engineering background in Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics or similar field. • Strong coding skills with demonstrated proficiency in programming languages, such as Java, C++, Python, Rust, or similar languages. • Familiarity with storage and data processing systems, cloud infrastructure, and other technical tools. • Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to iterate quickly with teammates, incorporating feedback and holding a high bar for quality.

Commercial Administrative Business Partner

Palantir · New York, NY

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 Our team of Administrative Business Partners does more than just support our leaders: we’re the backbone of the busiest people at Palantir. We build positive relationships with the people we support and anticipate their needs without being asked. Our passion for helping others makes us an invaluable resource at Palantir! As an Administrative Business Partner, you will be handling a variety of professional responsibilities, including calendaring, travel, and expenses. You are very organized and thrive off of enabling the people you support to be as productive and impactful as possible. You’ll demonstrate your excellent communication skills, and exercise tact and diplomacy in helping to manage relationships with internal and external senior team members at Palantir. In this role you'll also demonstrate good judgment and critical thinking by understanding competing priorities and actioning accordingly. Core Responsibilities • Provide administrative support to a portfolio of individuals/teams across the business. • Handle sophisticated calendars in a fast-paced environment, and prioritize commitments to enhance time and productivity. • Ability to manage and coordinate travel arrangements (domestic and international), which may occasionally be last minute and require flexibility and quick turnaround • Track and process expense reports. • Help plan, support, and complete office events and external gatherings. • Work both autonomously and in collaboration with teammates, colleagues, and external contacts. What We Value • Ability to adjust quickly, anticipate needs, and implement autonomously, with strong attention to detail. • Ability to prioritize and have a high sense of urgency. • Excellent communication skills and perceptiveness. • Ability to interact with a wide range of teams internally and externally with thoughtfulness and tact. • High level of integrity, confidentiality, and discretion in both internal and external interactions. What We Require • At least three years of previous administrative or personal support experience, preferably in a fast-paced environment. • Excellent digital literacy, including proficiency with Microsoft products (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.). • Experience with scheduling sophisticated international and domestic travel itineraries. • Familiarity with travel booking and expense reporting software.

Revenue Accounting Manager

Palantir · New York, NY

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 The Finance Team supports and empowers Palantirians through both day-to-day operations and a solution oriented approach to problem solving. As a member of the Revenue Team, you will be responsible for guiding your customer & deal portfolio through the quote-to-cash process, analyzing and reviewing complex revenue transactions, as well as continually refining our revenue recognition policies. You will need to be able to articulate revenue guidance clearly while supporting legal and deal team on contract drafting to maximize revenue. You will also provide direction on technical revenue accounting issues and be able to explain the accounting impact to the internal stakeholders across various teams including Business Development/Sales, Legal, and Finance during the contract negotiation process. You will work closely with Sales, Finance, and Accounts Receivable teams to ensure the health of your portfolio and participate in global month/quarter end revenue close. You are a hands on self-starter who loves to collaborate, and who is always looking to improve upon the status quo. The position requires strong technical, analytical, attention to details and communication skills. Core Responsibilities • Manage the revenue recognition process from the contract negotiation phase to financial statement disclosure. • Partnering with Legal and Sales teams to optimize contractual structures to achieve business objectives while ensuring compliance with policies and revenue recognition rules. • Exercise judgment while ensuring that accounting conclusions are documented in technical memos in accordance with policies and current software revenue recognition rules. • Drive revenue and cost of revenue month-end close process by creating and validating accruals, preparing and reviewing journal entries and account reconciliations, ensuring policy compliance and developing standard reports. • Provide technical guidance, training, and support to the Finance, Legal, and Business Development/Sales teams. • Work actively with internal and external auditors to ensure that revenue recognition policies and interpretations are consistent and adhere to GAAP. • Identify, champion, and implement continuous improvement initiatives related to revenue processes, including systems, reporting, analysis • Partnering with business leadership and the Sales/Finance team on revenue forecasting processes. What We Value • Strong communications, presentation, and interpersonal skills, including the ability to summarize key accounting and operational issues to business partners and leadership. • Complex analytic problem solving and project management skills. • Proficiency with NetSuite and/or other revenue recognition accounting systems. • CPA or ACCA/ACA (preferred but not required). What We Require • Extensive experience in application of ASC 606, specifically in the application to enterprise software-as-a-service. • 5+ years’ experience within a large public accounting firm and/or a small to mid-size enterprise software company. • Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience in business administration, economics, finance, accounting, or related field.