3 years ago
Senior Software Engineer - Observability
Palantir
New York, NY
Full-time
GenOps Responsibility Profile
Runtime Ownership
✓ Yes
Control Plane
✓ Yes
Governance / Policy
✗ No
Observability / Telemetry
✓ Yes
Incident / Reliability
✓ Yes
Regulated Context
✓ Yes
AI / Model Runtime
✗ No
Primary Domain
observability platform
Production Environment
internal
Classification Confidence
95%
Rationale: This is a clear GenOps role with direct ownership of Palantir's observability platform including ingestion, processing, monitoring, and alerting systems. The role owns production runtime infrastructure (observability platform) that enables incident response and reliability across the organization, with control plane responsibility for the platform itself.
Job Description
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.