Palantir
Product Development
ProductionEngineer-DatabaseOperations
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“Production Engineer - Database Operations at Palantir. Skills: database deployment and maintenance, automation, observability, production issue remediation, large scale migrations, cloud environments, distributed systems. Build software that automates the routine work of deploying and running production databases. Participate in regular on-call rotations”
What You'll Achieve.
design how databases are deployed and operated across a wide variety of environments; build the automation and observability that keep them healthy; respond to the critical production issues that affect some of the world's most impactful use cases; drive important outcomes when lines of responsibility are unclear; stay calm and work effectively during high-stakes incidents; build the understanding to be effective through the changes; build resilient and highly available database systems; Hold the bar on engineering and operational standards
Industry & Context.
Troubleshoot, diagnose, and remediate stability and reliability issues in production database systems; Identify patterns across incidents, support tickets, and alerts, and translate those observations into proposals for systemic improvements; First-principles thinking. You want to thoroughly understand the systems you work on rather than applying band-aid fixes, and you ask questions to get there.
Participate in regular on-call rotations
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Engineering background in Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics or similar field, Experience writing code a variety of programming languages such as Java, Python, and Go, as part of a past role or personal projects, Experience with cloud and orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes, Helm, AWS, GCP, Azure, and OpenShift, Experience with database technologies such as Cassandra, Elasticsearch and Kafka, A solid foundation in Linux and how distributed web services work, Familiarity with observability tools such as Grafana and Prometheus, written and verbal communication and the ability to iterate quickly with teammates and incorporate feedback
What You'll Do.
Build software that automates the routine work of deploying and running production databases
Participate in regular on-call rotations
and remediate stability and reliability issues in production database systems
Participate in post-incident reviews and take ownership of follow up actions
Identify patterns across incidents
and translate those observations into proposals for systemic improvements to our fleet
Manage and execute large scale migrations of the fleet of databases we run
Work with database engineering teams and infrastructure teams to build resilient and highly available database systems
Continuously invest in documentation
monitors and other troubleshooting tools
Hold the bar on engineering and operational standards through code reviews
and feedback on operating procedures
Build deep expertise and experience in production systems (Kubernetes
etc. ) and share that knowledge amongst the team
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Ability to collaborate and empathize under pressure; iterate quickly with teammates and incorporate feedback; Partner with customer-facing teams during incidents and when setting up new database installations; Work with database engineering teams and infrastructure teams; share that knowledge amongst the team; give thoughtful feedback in reviews; treat raising the team's overall capability as part of the job
Communication Scope
written and verbal communication; ability to iterate quickly with teammates and incorporate feedback
Full Job Description
## Description 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 Database Operations is responsible for the deployment and maintenance of the database layer that Palantir’s products depend on. As an engineer on the Database Operations team, you will design how databases are deployed and operated across a wide variety of environments, build the automation and observability that keep them healthy, and respond to the critical production issues that affect some of the world's most impactful use cases. ## Core Responsibilities Build software that automates the routine work of deploying and running production databases Participate in regular on-call rotations Troubleshoot, diagnose, and remediate stability and reliability issues in production database systems Participate in post-incident reviews and take ownership of follow up actions Identify patterns across incidents, support tickets, and alerts, and translate those observations into proposals for systemic improvements to our fleet Manage and execute large scale migrations of the fleet of databases we run Partner with customer-facing teams during incidents and when setting up new database installations Work with database engineering teams and infrastructure teams to build resilient and highly available database systems Continuously invest in documentation, metrics, monitors and other troubleshooting tools Hold the bar on engineering and operational standards through code reviews, design reviews, and feedback on operating procedures Build deep expertise and experience in production systems (Kubernetes, cloud environments, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, etc.) and share that knowledge amongst the team ## What We Value Strong sense of ownership in ambiguous environments.
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