Staff Backend Engineer
PalantirSeattle, WAonsite$183K–$309KDataPosted 10d ago · Sep 4, 2026
Palantir is hiring a staff backend engineer to work on software engineering for operational data platforms for government and industrial customers.
What you would own
- Design, build and operate services that carry production traffic.
- Raise the reliability and latency bar for the systems you own.
- Review designs and mentor engineers across the team.
Skills
TypeScriptGoKubernetesAWSPythonRustRustgRPCTerraform
What Agraph knows about Palantir
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Employees
4.3K
+7.8% 90d
Open roles
312
+20% 30d
Remote share
11%
Activity score
78
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Job posting spike
Palantir job postings up 20% in 30 days
Open roles moved from 260 to 312 over the trailing 30 days, with forward deployed engineer roles leading the increase.
Open job postings312+20%/ 30 days
A sustained increase at this rate usually precedes headcount growth by one to two quarters.
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