# Senior Backend Software Engineer - Application Development

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. Your day-to-day workflow will vary, adapting to the requirements of our users and the technical challenges that arise. One day, you may find yourself collaborating with other engineers to architect a new system that enables a novel workflow, the next you could be fine-tuning performance to enable low-latency operational outcomes. Our Product Development organisation is made up of small teams of Software Engineers. Each team focuses on a

- **Id**: 125971
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/palantir-technologies-senior-backend-software-engineer-application-development>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: New York, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-04-06T14:20:37Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-04-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T06:09:14Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 216
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5998
- **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**: 66
- **Open postings**: 231
- **Ghost share**: 0.485
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 169
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 158000
- **Max usd**: 294000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 3667

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: yes
- **Docker** — Optional: yes
- **ElasticSearch** — Optional: yes
- **GitHub** — Optional: yes
- **Go** — Optional: yes
- **Gradle** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **Spark** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: company_stale
- **Days open**: 216

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-04-06T14:20:37Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 207 · green card filings: 38; Filings 12m: 207

## Liveness

- **Score**: 35
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.805
- **P room**: 0.44
- **Age days**: 216
- **Expected fill days**: 169
- **Reasons**: conf:4, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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