What are the responsibilities and job description for the Incident Management Engineer position at Palantir Technologies?
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
Incident Management Engineers (IMEs) are the driving forces of stability across Palantir’s products. IME’s help to ensure Palantir fixes critical issues immediately. When something goes wrong, IME’s are the first to respond and are responsible for triaging, troubleshooting, and coordinating the resolution of the issue.
You’ll be a member of a centralized team responsible for managing the most critical outages. You are an excellent communicator, collaborator, and troubleshooter and can use these skills in fast-paced and high-stakes environments. You are able to parse technical details quickly and know when to ask for help when you need it.
Whatever the issue is, you are ensuring it gets resolved at a high bar as quickly and seamlessly as possible.
\n- Develop a deep understanding of Palantir’s product and delivery ecosystem.
- Collaborate with customer-facing, product, and infrastructure teams on the development and deployment of scalable, reliable software for our customers.
- Diagnose, resolve, and prevent issues encountered in the field.
- Reduce the operational overhead of responding to critical incidents at Palantir through investments in tooling, process, and automation.
- Take part in a 24/7 on-call rotation responsible for coordinating Palantir’s response to mission-critical incidents, ensuring efficient resolution with minimal customer impact.
- Excellent problem solving skills.
- Comfort working in a fast paced environment.
- Ability to work both independently and make decisions under minimal direction, as well as collaborate as part of a team.
- Experience with scripting, automation, or data analysis a plus.
- Background in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Incident Management, or other technical field.
- Willingness and interest to travel to other Palantir locations on occasion.
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 city and or country 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 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.
