Privacy and Civil Liberties Software Engineer

A World-Changing Company

Palantir builds the worlds 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

ThePrivacy and Civil Liberties (PCL) Engineeringteam is a mission-driven interdisciplinary team of Software Engineers, Data Scientists, Lawyers, and Applied Ethicists. The goal of the PCL team is to design, build, and deploy privacy-protective technologies and to foster a culture of responsibility around their development and use. Our team has deep expertise in privacy law and technology ethics, and PCL engineers translate legal and ethical requirements into software solutions.

As a Software Engineer on the PCL team, you will be responsible for designing and developing full-stack software products for privacy, data protection, and Responsible AI (AI explainability, fairness, transparency, testing & evaluation, etc.) across Palantirs software platforms, including Foundry, Gotham, and AIP. The software that you build will directly help our customers, across industries and geographies, better meet their regulatory and ethical obligations. As part of this role, you will collaborate with technical and non-technical teammates to understand our customers problems as well as the latest trends in policy and regulation in order to build practical solutions for privacy and Responsible AI challenges.

Were hiring software engineers who are passionate about solving real-world problems and empowering our customers to carry out their workflows both effectively and responsibly. Below are some examples of the type of product work youd get to do in this role:

Core Responsibilities

• Architect, develop, and maintain high-performance, scalable backend services that underpin critical workflows for governance, privacy, and security.
• Build new greenfield solutions for emerging challenges in privacy and Responsible AI and iterate with customers in the field to refine these solutions based on real-world feedback.
• Design and develop interactive workflow user-interfaces to make technical concepts accessible to users from a variety of backgrounds.
• Maintain high coding standards by actively participating in code reviews and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and knowledge sharing among your team.
• Actively improve user workflows by collaborating with cross-functional teams, ensuring seamless experiences across product boundaries and a cohesive user experience.
• Work closely with other Palantir engineers and customers to advise on best practices for privacy, data governance, and Responsible AI in Palantir software platforms.

Technologies We Use:

• Typescript, React, and GQL for our frontend development
• Different backend languages, including Java and Python
• Distributed systems technologies such as Cassandra, Elasticsearch and Spark
• Industry-standard build tooling, including Gradle, GitHub, and CircleCI

What We Value

• Passion for understanding users workflows and solving challenges with full-stack software solutions, while maintaining high engineering quality.
• Ability to learn new technologies and concepts, even without in-depth experience.
• Experience building high-quality software in a fast-paced CI/CD development environment.
• Ability to work collaboratively in teams of technical and non-technical individuals and understand how technical decisions impact the people who will use what you're building.
• Skill and comfort working in a constantly evolving environment with dynamic objectives and iteration with users.
• Proven ability to learn continuously, work independently, and make decisions with minimal supervision.
• Experience and curiosity in any of the following domains is a plus: privacy, data protection, AI testing & evaluation, AI fairness/bias, technology ethics.

What We Require

• 2+ years of frontend and backend software engineering experience.
• Engineering background in Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics or similar field.
• Experience in designing and developing features and improvements, as well as supporting and maintaining live backend systems.
• In-depth understanding of data structures, system architecture, API development for microservices frameworks and programming languages such as Java, Python, or similar languages.
• Familiarity with frontend frameworks, web technologies, and programming languages such as JavaScript/Typescript, or similar languages.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.