Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer at Rethink recruit
New York, NY
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Jul 6, 2026
New York, NY
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hands-on infrastructure engineering role focused on deploying, operating, and maintaining Palantir's software platforms across commercial cloud and classified government networks. Day-to-day work spans monitoring, configuration management, upgrades, production troubleshooting, and automating manual processes, with shared on-call responsibility. Suited to engineers comfortable bridging software development and systems operations in sensitive, security-cleared environments.
Mid level · National · Secret clearance · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The role sits at the boundary between software engineering (automating workflows, developing tooling, systems design) and infrastructure operations (monitoring, on-call, fleet support), making the SOC classification genuinely ambiguous. The emphasis on writing software and reducing toil through code tips it toward 15-1252 Software Developers, but 15-1244 is a credible runner-up given the heavy ops/support framing.
No specific location is stated in the posting. Palantir's Baseline team is described as global (~90 people), and the role involves on-prem government network deployments, so it is unlikely to be fully remote; remote=false is a judgement call.
The clearance requirement is stated as 'eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance' — the JD does not specify the level (Secret vs. Top Secret). Given the explicit mention of classified government networks and defense environments, Secret is the conservative minimum; the actual level may be higher.
No total years of experience or specific technology names (e.g. Terraform, Kubernetes, Ansible) are hard-gated in the posting — the requirements are stated in capability terms rather than named tools. Skills extracted reflect the concrete named items that do appear.
Familiarity with Palantir platforms (Foundry, Gotham, Apollo) is listed under 'Nice to Have' and treated as preferred.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): configuration management.
Requires a Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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