Software Engineer, Planet

• 4+ years of experience in software development within a production environment working preferably with Python or Golang
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Geosciences, or similar technical field
• Solid understanding of software engineering best practices and development methodologies
• Excellent teamwork and collaboration skills - written and verbal; you are comfortable writing an engineering design proposal and soliciting feedback to drive collaborative decisions
• Familiarity with GCP or AWS and distributed event-driven architecture
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly and independently, navigate uncertain and sometimes ambiguous problem spaces, and take calculated risks
• Experience working with diverse data storage systems such as relational databases, document stores, and key-value stores
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills
• Experience with Git, large codebases, reviewing merge requests, and running complex CI/CD pipelines
• Comfortable working with Docker containers
• Solid intuition of when AI is useful in software development and when it is not

Desirable

• Planet’s Discovery & Delivery APIs team owns systems used to request, transform, and deliver Planet Data on and off the Planet Insights Platform
• As Planet expands its satellite constellations and integrates more derived data products such as Planetary Variables, Analysis-Ready PlanetScope, and Basemaps, you'll enable seamless high-throughput customer access to these powerful products on the platform
• Your contributions will enable any number of new techniques to understand our changing world
• This position is responsible for building and maintaining customer-facing services – Subscriptions, Orders, and Destinations APIs – as well as several internal fundamental building blocks of the Platform using a tech stack that includes Go, Python, Postgres (PostGIS), and Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform
• The team is highly distributed and thrives on clear asynchronous communication and emphasizes highly scalable, resilient, observable architecture often leveraging several open source geospatial libraries and standards
• Success in this role requires strong collaborative communication skills to build coworker relationships across several time zones as well as the ability to contribute to occasional team on-sites hosted in Planet’s offices
• Building and maintaining performant, distributed large-scale services and highly-available APIs in Go and Python with a strong emphasis on customer experience
• Working closely with engineers and product managers across multiple cross-functional teams to align product & engineering goals and objectives
• Writing high-quality, maintainable, observable, and well-documented production code
• Participating in code reviews to maintain high code quality and standards
• Learning and growing as a developer while making a positive impact on our products and customers; bringing the team along with you as your expertise grows
• Owning the operation of these APIs and services by embracing Site Reliability Engineering culture, measuring performance, load testing, creating and fine-tuning alerts, dashboards, runbooks, and responding to incidents
• Participating in rapid response on-call rotation in support of the team’s external and internal services

• Application Deadline: February 6th, 2026. 11:59pm PST