Software Engineer, Internship - Infrastructure

Overview

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

Are you passionate about engineering quality, performance, and increasing the impact of engineers around you?

Software Engineers at Palantir build software at scale to transform how organizations around the world use data. As an intern within Palantir’s Foundations organization, you’ll have the opportunity to grow quickly as you build the shared infrastructure that underpins the Palantir Foundry, Palantir Gotham, and Palantir Apollo platforms, and drive investments to improve the velocity and quality of our engineering.

Teams

Teams within Palantir’s Foundations organization are made up of a small number of engineers, 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. This includes designing infrastructure to build hundreds of micro-service repos performantly and ensuring reliable audit logs of user activity.
• Developer Infrastructure: Operates systems and services that underpin the developer ecosystem, including tooling for managing automated changes across hundreds of repositories.
• Frontend Infrastructure: Maximizes frontend developer productivity across the entire frontend development stack, from IDE to the browser. This includes core infrastructure for frontend development and serving, features flags, internationalization, commit previews, performant build tooling, and the Blueprint open source UI framework.
• Storage Infrastructure: Develops Palantir’s database and search systems, supporting storage technologies across cloud, on-premise, and secure environments. This includes evolving technologies to support increasing data scale and latency, and designing the next evolution of the database offering to improve specific workflows.

Core Responsibilities

As a Software Engineering Intern in Foundations, your projects may include building features to improve the developer experience for other Palantir engineers or enhancing the scalability and reliability of Palantir’s platforms.

You’ll be involved throughout the product lifecycle, from idea generation and design to execution and rollout, paired with a mentor dedicated to your growth and success. You’ll collaborate with technical and non-technical counterparts to understand developers’ and customers’ problems and build infrastructure to tackle them.

Technologies We Use

It doesn’t matter what languages you know when you join us, but it matters 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 workflows and end users
• Ability to communicate and collaborate with engineers, users, and non-technical team members
• Willingness to learn and make decisions independently, with the ability to ask questions when needed
• Active US Security clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain a US Security clearance

What We Require

• Engineering background in 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 languages such as Java, C++, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, or similar
• Planning to graduate in 2028. This should be your final internship before graduating

How to Apply

To apply, please submit:

• An updated resume / CV in PDF format
• Thoughtful responses to our application questions

Salary

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

Life at Palantir

We celebrate individuals’ strengths, skills, and interests, from your first interview to long-term growth, rather than relying on traditional career ladders. We prioritize health and well-being and offer pathways to growth across Palantir. Our office-first culture encourages collaboration, with some teams offering hybrid options. In certain roles, remote work may be possible on an exceptional basis and only from the state of employment.

If you want to empower the world's most important institutions, you belong here. Palantir is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide accommodations in the application and hiring process for those with disabilities upon request. If you suspect a scam during the application process, do not engage and report to authorities such as the US FBI IC3. For information on how your data is processed, please see Palantir’s Privacy Policy.