Site Reliability Engineer - US Government

The Role

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. Our team strives to automate processes wherever possible, using whichever tools are best for the job.

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. In this role, you’ll work closely with engineers to advocate and participate in sensible, scalable, systems design and share responsibility with them in diagnosing, resolving, and preventing production issues.

Core Responsibilities

• 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
• Scripting to automate away routine operational tasks
• Provide technical troubleshooting support for production issues, ensuring timely resolution and minimal impact on operations. Participate in a support on-call schedule

What We Value

• Confidence in troubleshooting complex systems issues independently using stack traces and observability & systems tools
• Comfort with managing large scale production systems and technologies with configuration management, load balancing, monitoring & alerting infrastructure, and container orchestration
• Demonstrated ability to continuously learn and work independently, making decisions with minimal supervision while working in secure facilities
• Experience with containers (Docker/Podman) and orchestration (OpenShift/Kubernetes) at scale is a plus
• Preferred Certifications: DOD 8570 IAT Level II or greater (CISSP, Sec+), Unix/Linux Computing Environment (e.g Linux+, RHCE)

What We Require

• Active security clearance
• 4+ 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
• Proficiency with at least one programming language, such as Java, Go, Python, JavaScript, Bash, or similar languages.
• Strong engineering background, preferred in fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, and Data Science

Salary

The estimated salary range for this position is estimated to be $125,000 - $185,000/year. Total compensation for this position may also include Restricted Stock units, sign-on bonus and other potential future incentives. Further note that total compensation for this position will be determined by each individual’s relevant qualifications, work experience, skills, and other factors. This estimate excludes the value of any potential sign-on bonus; the value of any benefits offered; and the potential future value of any long-term incentives.

Benefits

• Employees (and their eligible dependents) can enroll in medical, dental, and vision insurance as well as voluntary life insurance
• Employees are automatically covered by Palantir’s basic life, AD&D and disability insurance
• Commuter benefits
• Relocation assistance
• Take what you need paid time off, not accrual based
• 2 weeks paid time off built into the end of each year (subject to team and business needs)
• 10 paid holidays throughout the calendar year
• Supportive leave of absence program including time off for military service and medical events
• Paid leave for new parents and subsidized back-up care for all parents
• Fertility and family building benefits including but not limited to adoption, surrogacy, and preservation
• Stipend to help with expenses that come with a new child
• Employees can enroll in Palantir’s 401k plan

Life at Palantir

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. Therefore, we encourage employees to work from our offices to foster connectivity and innovation. 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 you are applying for one of these roles, you must work from the state in which you are employed. If the posting is specified as Onsite, you are required to work from an office.