Site Reliability Engineer - London, United Kingdom - Palantir Technologies

Description

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.

We're looking for Site Reliability Engineers who can help us build, operate, and maintain high-performance, scalable, and reliable services for our production infrastructure, across both cloud & on-prem environments.

Site Reliability Engineers combine engineering experience and an innate drive to improve existing systems and processes, with the creativity to develop novel solutions to evolving challenges.

You'll be the experts for the environments that you operate infrastructure in, helping partner teams build & configure their software to operate reliably within.

We strongly believe in engineering teams being responsible for the operations of their services in production. Maintaining availability of cloud & physical Linux servers that power the Palantir platform in air-gapped production environments
Design, deploy, and operate infrastructure to support customer & product requirements via modern orchestration & monitoring platforms
Collaborate closely with product teams on requirements & SLOs for deploying software into air-gapped environments.
Identifying, troubleshooting, and solving network & systems issues
Comfort with large scale production systems and technologies - for example, load balancing, monitoring, distributed systems, or configuration management
Proficiency with programming languages such as Java, C++, Python, JavaScript, or similar languages
5+ years of experience with Linux system administration (RHEL or equivalent preferred)
~ Experience with cloud-based hosting platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP and/or experience with hardware-based environments
~ Familiarity with monitoring systems using tools like Prometheus and writing health checks

Paying attention to the needs of our community enables us to optimize our opportunities to grow and helps ensure many pathways to success at Palantir.

Promoting health and well-being across all areas of Palantirians' lives is just one of the ways we're investing in our community.

In keeping consistent with Palantir's values and culture, we believe employees are "better together" and in-person work affords the opportunity for more creative outcomes.

Many teams do offer hybrid options (WFH a day or two a week), allowing our employees to strike the right trade-off for their personal productivity.

Based on business need, there are a few roles that allow for "Remote" work on an exceptional basis. If the posting is specified as Onsite, you are required to work from an office.
Palantir is committed to promoting a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

If you are living with a disability (visible or not visible) and need to request a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process, please reach out and let us know how we can help.

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