# Backend Software Engineer - Infrastructure, Foundations

The Role Backend Software Engineers at Palantir build software at scale to transform how organisations use data. Our Software Engineers are involved throughout the product lifecycle, from idea generation, design, prototyping, and production delivery. You will collaborate closely with technical and non-technical teammates to understand our customers' problems and build products that solve them. We encourage movement across teams to share context, skills, and experience, so you'll learn about many different technologies and aspects of each product. Engineers work autonomously and make decisions independently, within a community that will support and challenge you as you grow and develop, becoming a strong technical contributor and engineering leader. Our Product Development organisation is made up of small teams of Software Engineers. Each team focuses on a specific aspect of a product. Our infrastructure teams are responsible for the lowest layers of our software stack, often focused on database technologies, distributed systems, large scale data systems, security, and application infrastructure. As a Software Engineer on infrastructure, you'll contribute high-quality code to underp

- **Id**: 944562
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/palantir-technologies-backend-software-engineer-infrastructure-foundations-2>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: London, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-03-26T12:35:39Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-03-26
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T09:53:46Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 233
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4501
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Data Integration & ETL Tools, Decision Intelligence, Defense AI

## Company

- **Id**: 24
- **Name**: Palantir Technologies
- **Domain**: palantir.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/palantir>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

### Truth index

- **Grade**: C
- **Score**: 65
- **Open postings**: 228
- **Ghost share**: 0.496
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 167
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 83000
- **Max usd**: 201000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_country_seniority_unknown
- **Sample n**: 424

## Technologies

- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Cassandra** — Optional: no
- **ElasticSearch** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no
- **Tracing** — Optional: no
- **Flink** — Optional: yes
- **GitHub** — Optional: yes
- **Gradle** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **Spark** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: company_stale
- **Days open**: 232

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-15T19:58:27Z
- Event: open; At: 2026-09-25T17:51:25Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Senior or Specialist Worker, Skilled Worker); Route: Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker; Skilled Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 28
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.636
- **P room**: 0.44
- **Age days**: 232
- **Expected fill days**: 167
- **Reasons**: conf:3, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

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