Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer, Internship - US Government

Deploy and operate Palantir software across production environments, including monitoring, alerting, configuration management, and upgrades

Debug, improve, and optimize Palantir’s services and infrastructure with a focus on long-term reliability and scalability

Reduce manual operations by automating workflows, processes, and runbooks wherever possible

Develop novel solutions in Palantir’s Foundry and Apollo platforms to solve infrastructure challenges

Impact: We address meaningful and exciting projects that change the world for the better.

Ownership: We see projects through from beginning to end, working through any obstacles we may encounter. We trust each other to effectively handle time and priorities and give people the space to think for themselves.

Collaboration: We work with people from a variety of backgrounds — including other FDIEs, product teams, and forward deployed software engineers.

Growth: We believe experiential learning is one of the best teachers and encourage ourselves and our peers to seek new challenges and opportunities for growth, as well as find new ways to innovate and share knowledge.

Ability to continuously learn, work independently, and make decisions with minimal direction

Confidence troubleshooting complex systems issues using observability tools and service logs

Comfort with large-scale production systems and technologies — such as load balancing, monitoring, distributed systems, or configuration management

Ability to identify and automate highly manual tasks, driving ongoing improvements within and across teams

Eagerness to creatively solve technical problems using cloud infrastructure, storage systems, and other infrastructure tooling

Ability to collaborate across teams of technical and non-technical individuals in a constantly evolving environment with dynamic objectives

Active US Security clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain a US Security clearance prior to start of internship

Engineering background, preferred in fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, and Data Science

Strong proficiency with one or more programming languages, such as Python, Java, Go, C++, TypeScript/JavaScript, or similar

Must be planning on graduating in 2028. This should be your final internship before graduating

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