Privacy and Civil Liberties Software Engineer
New York, NYFull-TimeMid-levelSoftware Engineering
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.
