Software Engineer, Planet

• Ideal candidates are pragmatic software engineers who apply sound engineering principles and operational discipline to large backend data services
• 4+ years of relevant work experience building services in a language like Go or Python, and a clear interest in becoming an expert in both
• Experience of cloud-native development - containerization, cloud services such as GCP/AWS
• Experience with a large shared codebase, continuous integration and deployment workflows, and tooling like GitLab CI
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, written and oral; can explain deeply technical topics to teammates and users
• If this job intrigues you, but you’re thinking you might not have all the qualifications, please... do apply!

Desirable

• Planet's satellite constellations image the world's surface every day, delivering raw images through hundreds of workflows to provide processed imagery, analysis, and insights to our customers
• The Compute Team develops and operates the in-house distributed systems that ensure these workflows are reliably executed at vast scale 24x7
• These systems enable new techniques to understand our changing world, especially as AI models enable a wider range of analyses
• You will be responsible for the development and operation of these backend services using a tech stack consisting of Go, Python, and Kubernetes running on Google’s Cloud
• Spearheads the evolution of compute and data delivery services with an emphasis on scale and user requirements
• Collaborates to enable efficient and rapid access to our variety of new and growing data sets
• Improves reliability and scalability by resolving edge cases, studying failure modes, and writing tests
• Manages underlying persistence layers across Spanner, Redis, PostgreSQL and BigTable
• Owns the operation of these services by measuring performance, creating alerts, runbooks, and responding to incidents and performance anomalies
• Participates in an on-call rotation in support of our team’s services

• Application Deadline: September 17, 2026 at 11:59pm PT