Senior Software Engineer, Planet
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Satellite imagery & earth data analytics
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Satellite imagery & earth data analytics
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
+ Equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To image all of Earth’s landmass every day, and make global change visible, accessible and actionable.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate will have a positive attitude, a collaborative mindset, and be passionate about solving complex problems in innovative ways
- Bachelor’s degree
- Experience discussing, planning and building projects in Python and Golang
- Experience with OpenAPI and REST code generation
- Experience with relational databases, especially BigQuery and Timescale
- Excellent communication skills in English, written and oral
- 6+ years of experience in software development
- Experience working in cross-functional teams that put customer requirements first
- Ability to be adaptable and open to mentorship
- Experience with CI/CD and source control tooling (GitHub, GitLab)
- Experience with public cloud reference architectures and services, such as Google Cloud Platform or AWS
- Ability to work Eastern Time
Desirable
- Experience with Airflow, Spark or other data engineering tools
- Experience using spatial data, including working with large GeoJSON files and web tile formats
- Experience with event-driven systems, especially Pub/Sub and Kafka
- Experience building backend services and infrastructure that scales and is easy to evolve
- Experience with SQL-based ETL development, data warehousing pipeline development and optimization with large data sets
- Experience planning and building automated end-to-end tests across data pipelines, APIs and web apps
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Software Engineer focused on building robust code to analyze customer telemetry, with a focus on geospatial data
- You will work on building scalable, low-latency APIs and reliable data pipelines to deliver critical information to both customers and the business
- Additionally, you will have the opportunity to work closely with cross-functional teams, contributing to the development of new features and improving existing systems
- Our team is small, and distributed across eastern North America and Berlin
- To ensure we have time to meet, our team starts no later than 9AM ET; candidates should operate in Eastern, Atlantic or Newfoundland timezones
- Propose, plan and build improvements to a newly-built, event-driven architecture for performance and flexibility
- Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve technical issues related to customer telemetry and reporting
- Build and maintain high-performance data processing pipelines to efficiently handle large volumes of data
- Develop, document and maintain APIs that deliver actionable insights from customer telemetry, enabling data-driven decision-making and enhancing customer experience through real-time and historical analytics
- Identify open-source tools which fit new data engineering needs
- Review code changes and improve your own changes based on team feedback
- Write and improve automated tests to ensure the accuracy and reliability of code
Application process
- Application Deadline: April 5, 2026 by 11:59pm PT (23:59 Pacific Time)
Our take
Planet’s high resolution, high frequency Earth-imaging satellites make daily changes in the earth more visible, allowing the company to provide quick turnaround geo-spatial data to its customers. The company was founded by a group of former NASA employees driven by a desire to make global change more actionable by rendering it more visible.
Planet operates the largest Earth-imaging satellite network available, putting it ahead of any competitors. Its landmass data is easy to access, requiring only a subscription from its members - who range from ecological organizations, to private companies and government bodies. The company is also supporting SES and Telesat on their space relay projects for NASA.
The current focus of Planet seems to be on employing its network towards climate and environmental issues. A partnership with Accenture comes with the goal of developing AI-powered geospatial intelligence tools to support sustainability projects; and the company's acquisition of Salo Sciences will allow it to develop offerings around enabling customers to quantify carbon stocks, monitor forest change, and mitigate climate risks.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
29% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jul 2019
$184m
SERIES D
Apr 2015
$93m
SERIES C
Total funding: $342.1m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health plan
- Wellness program and massages
- Flexible time off
- Recognition programs
- Commuter benefits
- Learning and tuition reimbursement
- Parental leave
- Offsites and happy hours
- Volunteering benefits
Company HQ
South Beach, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Will Marshall
(Co-Founder & CEO)After a Ph.D. at UCSB and Postdoc at Harvard, they worked for almost 6 years as a NASA Scientist. They left in January 2012 to co-found Planet the following month.
Robbie Schingler
(Co-Founder & CSO)They took an MBA at Georgetown University before spending over 5 years at NASA. They left their Chief of Staff role in October 2011 to co-found Planet with Will.
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