Palantir Technologies
Software Engineer, Intern - Connectivity Platform and Product
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Build backend and frontend features for Palantir’s connectivity platform, including SDKs, integrations, APIs, authentication flows, security frameworks, and high-scale data workflows. Diagnose performance and correctness issues, support networking functionality, and collaborate with engineers and customer-facing teams. The role is approximately 75% backend and 25% frontend, involving distributed systems, databases, cloud computing, networking, and software architecture.
A World-Changing Company
Palantir builds the world’s leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more.
The Role
The Connectivity team builds products that connect our most critical institutions to their most critical data. Our products securely integrate databases, enterprise applications, cloud storage, web services, and streaming systems, enabling customers to bring data into Foundry and write back to their operational systems. We build applications, frameworks, and infrastructure for connectivity across Foundry: high scale data processing pipelines, user-written code, AI agents, or connecting directly from the Ontology.
You’ll work across the stack, owning and building out features across our UI, backend services, and compute platforms. You’ll iterate closely with experienced engineers, FDEs, and other teams to scope and build out new Connectivity products and integrations, as well as building toolkits to support those integrations: APIs, SDKs, authentication flows, security frameworks, and changes to core products across the platform. The work is highly technical, collaborative, dynamic, and follows customer signal closely.
This role is expected to be about 75% backend and 25% frontend.
Core Responsibilities
We're hiring high agency engineers who are passionate about solving real-world problems. If you’re motivated to enable outcomes with connectivity, here are some examples of the types of work you’d get to do:
- Build SDKs and integrations that allow customers and internal product teams to write code to connect to external systems
- Launch features to enable entirely new paradigms of data connection
- Dive deep into Foundry security and the bleeding edge of securing connected AI agents and pipelines in sensitive environments
- Identify, diagnose, and remediate performance and correctness issues for high scale connectivity workflows
- Work with infrastructure teams to expose powerful networking functionality to users
- Craft elegant workflows to enable customers to maximally leverage their data systems
- Scale nascent connectivity products from first use to billions
- Learn and build across a large suite of repos, services, and domains
Technologies We Use
- Java and Python
- Open-source technologies like Cassandra, Kubernetes, Envoy, GraphQL, and React
- Protocols such as TCP, UDP, TLS, HTTP
- Gradle for builds and GitHub for collaboration
- Shared job orchestration, streaming, serverless execution, and compute deployment platforms
You do not need prior experience with these technologies. We expect you to learn them here.
What We Value
- Curiosity about connectivity in cloud systems, from networking to productization to security and authentication
- An ownership mindset and a high bar for usability, security, and correctness, including responsibility for how software behaves in production.
- Comfort following problems across languages, APIs, services, networks, and execution environments
- Eagerness to learn, ask questions, and incorporate feedback
What We Require
- Currently pursuing or recently completed a Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, or a similar field, or equivalent practical experience
- Proficiency in at least one language such as Java, Python, TypeScript, or Go
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Coursework, projects, or practical experience in one or more of computer networks, distributed systems, databases, cloud computing, or software architecture.
- Must be planning on graduating in 2028. This should be your final internship before graduating.
To apply, please submit the following:
- An updated resume / CV - please do so in PDF format.
- Thoughtful responses to our application questions.
Salary
The estimated salary range for this position is estimated to be $10,500/month. 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 benefits offered; and the potential future value of any long-term incentives.
Application deadline
We accept applications on an ongoing basis.
Life at Palantir
We want every Palantirian to achieve their best outcomes, that’s why we celebrate individuals’ strengths, skills, and interests, from your first interview to your longterm growth, rather than rely on traditional career ladders. Paying attention to the needs of our community enables us to optimize our opportunities to grow and helps ensure many pathways to success at Palantir. Promoting health and well-being across all areas of Palantirians’ lives is just one of the ways we’re investing in our community. Learn more at Life at Palantir and note that our offerings may vary by region.
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.
If you want to empower the world's most important institutions, you belong here. Palantir values excellence regardless of background. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer for all, including but not limited to Veterans and those with disabilities. Palantir is committed to making the application and hiring process accessible to everyone and will provide a reasonable accommodation for those living with a disability. If you need an accommodation for the application or hiring process, please reach out and let us know how we can help.
Please note that you will never be asked to submit a payment or share financial information to participate in our interview process. If you suspect that you've been contacted by a scammer, we recommend you cease all communication with the individual and consider reporting them to the relevant authorities, such as the US FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3).
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