Palantir Platform Engineer

Job Family: Data Engineering & Architecture Consulting

Travel Required: None

Clearance Required: Active Secret

• Focus on engineering, building, and maintaining shared platform capabilities, data pipelines, applications, workflows, automations, and governance tools within Palantir Foundry.
• Support multiple projects and applications by improving platform visibility, accelerating governance and product decisions, reducing duplication, and identifying opportunities for reuse and standardization.
• Create reusable platform capabilities that support multiple projects and application teams.
• Build governance, monitoring, logging, alerting, and portfolio-level views that improve visibility into platform activity, performance, risks, and dependencies.
• Develop automations that streamline governance reviews, approvals, product change requests, data quality checks, and other platform processes.
• Support automated detection and monitoring of sensitive data, including personally identifiable information.
• Coordinate across projects to identify conflicts, dependencies, duplicated capabilities, and opportunities for reuse.
• Review technical approaches and provide recommendations related to architecture, scalability, platform standards, and implementation risk.
• Partner with data governance, operations, product, and engineering teams to translate business and operational needs into practical platform solutions.
• Work with technical and non‑technical stakeholders to gather requirements and recommend improvements.
• Identify data quality and platform issues and advise the client on options to resolve or mitigate them.
• Develop trusted client relationships and support business development efforts, including proposals, white papers, demonstrations, and capability briefings.

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field.
• Three (3) years of hands‑on experience developing data, application, workflow, automation, or platform solutions within Palantir Foundry.
• Hands‑on experience using Foundry tools such as Code Repositories, Pipeline Builder, Workshop, Slate, Machinery, Ontology, Actions, and Functions.
• Strong engineering background with the ability to design, build, review, and improve data pipelines, user interfaces, workflows, automations, and reusable platform capabilities.
• Understanding of platform governance practices and observability.
• Experience supporting performance monitoring and operational tooling within Foundry.
• Experience supporting multiple projects or applications within a shared platform environment.
• Understanding of relational database concepts and structures.
• Ability to assess technical solutions and recommend improvements related to reuse, scalability, and platform standards.
• Strong programming experience using Python and SQL, with experience developing data pipelines, automations, or applications within Palantir Foundry.
• An acute attention to detail and ability to perform robust data quality checks.
• Ability to detect data issues affecting the performance of data pipelines and devise techniques for resolving or mitigating them.
• Ability to support remote, hybrid, and on‑site projects in the DC metro area.

• Six (6) years’ experience in hands‑on data engineering and/or database management.
• Strong scripting or programming experience (PySpark preferred).
• Active or ability to gain Top Secret Federal or DoD security clearance.
• Experience designing reusable enterprise platform capabilities.
• Experience building governance, portfolio management, compliance, or operational applications in Foundry.
• Experience developing platform monitoring, audit logging, automated data quality, or sensitive‑data detection capabilities.
• Experience advising clients on Palantir architecture, platform governance, and implementation approaches.

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
• Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus
• Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Basic Life & Supplemental Life
• Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Short‑Term & Long‑Term Disability
• Student Loan Pay Down Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities
• Skills Development & Certifications
• Employee Referral Program
• Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
• Emergency Back‑Up Childcare Program
• Mobility Stipend

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