Palantir Foundry Engineer

Title:

Palantir Foundry Engineer

Location:

Nashville TN (Onsite Day one)

Domain:
Health Care

Duration: 1+ yr

Hands‑on Foundry specialist who can design ontology‑first data products, engineer high‑reliability pipelines, and operationalize them into secure, observable, and reusable building blocks used by multiple applications (Workshop/Slate, AIP/Actions). You’ll own the full lifecycle: from raw sources to governed, versioned, materialized datasets wired into operational apps and AIP agents.

• Ontology & Data Product Design:
  Model Object Types, relationships, and semantics; enforce schema evolution strategies; define authoritative datasets with lineage and provenance.
• Pipelines & Materializations:
  Build Code Workbook transforms (SQL, PySpark/Scala), orchestrate multi‑stage DAGs, tune cluster/runtime parameters, and implement incremental + snapshot patterns with backfills and recovery.
• Operationalization:
  Configure schedules, SLAs/SLOs, alerts/health checks, and data quality tests (constraints, anomaly/volume checks); implement idempotency, checkpointing, and graceful retries.
• Governance & Security:
  Apply RBAC, object‑level permissions, policy tags/PII handling, and least‑privilege patterns; integrate with enterprise identity; document data contracts.
• Performance Engineering:
  Optimize joins/partitions, caching/materialization strategies, file layout (e.g., Parquet/Delta), and shuffle minimization; instrument with runtime metrics and cost controls.
• Dev Productivity & SDLC:
  Use Git‑backed code repos, branching/versioning, code reviews, unit/integration tests for transforms; templatize patterns for reuse across domains.
• Applications & Interfaces:
  Expose ontology‑backed data to Workshop/Slate apps wire Actions and AIP agents to governed datasets; publish clean APIs/feeds for downstream systems.
• Reliability & Incident Response:
  Own on‑call for data products, run RCAs, create runbooks, and drive preventive engineering.
• Documentation & Enablement:
  Produce playbooks, data product specs, and runbooks; mentor engineers and analysts on Foundry best practices.

• 7+ years in data engineering/analytics engineering with 4+ years hands‑on Palantir Foundry at scale.
• Deep expertise in Foundry Ontology, Code Workbooks, Pipelines, Materializations, Lineage/Provenance, and object permissions.
• Strong SQL and PySpark/Scala in Foundry; comfort with UDFs, window functions, and partitioning/bucketing strategies.
• Proven operational excellence: SLAs/SLOs, alerting, data quality frameworks, backfills, rollbacks, blue/green or canary data releases.
• Fluency with Git, CI/CD for Foundry code repos, test automation for transforms, and environment promotion.
• Hands‑on with cloud storage & compute (AWS/Azure/GCP), file formats (Parquet/Delta), and cost/perf tuning.
• Strong grasp of data governance (PII, masking, policy tags) and security models within Foundry.

• Building Workshop/Slate UX tied to ontology objects; authoring Actions and integrating AIP use cases.
• Streaming/event ingestion patterns (e.g., Kafka/Kinesis) materialized into curated datasets.
• Observability stacks (e.g., Datadog/Cloud Watch/Prometheus) for pipeline telemetry;
  Fin Ops/cost governance.
• Experience establishing platform standards: templates, code style, testing frameworks, domain data product catalogs.

• ≥99.5% pipeline success rate, with documented SLOs and active alerting.