Palantir Foundry Engineer

Position : Palantir Foundry Engineer

Location : Nashville, TN

Duration : 6 Months

Role Summary :

Hands-on Foundry specialist who can design ontology-first data products, engineer high-reliability pipelines, and operationalize them into secure, observable, and reusable building blocks used by multiple applications (Workshop / Slate, AIP / Actions). You'll own the full lifecycle : from raw sources to governed, versioned, materialized datasets wired into operational apps and AIP agents.

Core Responsibilities :

• Ontology & Data Product Design : Model Object Types, relationships, and semantics; enforce schema evolution strategies; define authoritative datasets with lineage and provenance.
• Pipelines & Materializations : Build Code Workbook transforms (SQL, PySpark / Scala), orchestrate multi-stage DAGs, tune cluster / runtime parameters, and implement incremental + snapshot patterns with backfills and recovery.
• Operationalization : Configure schedules, SLAs / SLOs, alerts / health checks, and data quality tests (constraints, anomaly / volume checks); implement idempotency, checkpointing, and graceful retries.
• Governance & Security : Apply RBAC, object-level permissions, policy tags / PII handling, and least-privilege patterns; integrate with enterprise identity; document data contracts.
• Performance Engineering : Optimize joins / partitions, caching / materialization strategies, file layout (e.g., Parquet / Delta), and shuffle minimization; instrument with runtime metrics and cost controls.
• Dev Productivity & SDLC : Use Git-backed code repos, branching / versioning, code reviews, unit / integration tests for transforms; templatize patterns for reuse across domains.
• Applications & Interfaces : Expose ontology-backed data to Workshop / Slate apps wire Actions and AIP agents to governed datasets; publish clean APIs / feeds for downstream systems.
• Reliability & Incident Response : Own on-call for data products, run RCAs, create runbooks, and drive preventive engineering.
• Documentation & Enablement : Produce playbooks, data product specs, and runbooks; mentor engineers and analysts on Foundry best practices.

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