Discover how Planet's daily satellite imagery and insights empower global decisions and actions with a multidimensional view of our changing planet. Backed by Felicis and Lux.
About the role
The Storage team at Planet builds and expands the core object and metadata storage platform that underpins the company's data infrastructure. The platform provides a horizontally scalable architecture that lets teams across the organization focus on what they do best while Storage handles data lifecycle, indexing, search, and all day-2 operations of managing a datastore at scale.
What they're looking for
- 6–8 years of software engineering experience
- Demonstrated software development experience in Go, Python, or similar modern languages building production backend services and APIs
- Fluency with AI-assisted development tools (e.g. Claude, Copilot) as part of your daily engineering workflow
- Experience monitoring and operating highly scalable cloud-native software
- Experience with relational datastores (PostgreSQL or MySQL) and non-relational datastores (e.g. BigTable, Elasticsearch) and an understanding of when to use each
- Experience building, releasing, and supporting highly available, consistently performant services
More about this role
Planet designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites in history. This constellation delivers an unprecedented dataset of empirical information via a revolutionary cloud-based platform to authoritative figures in commercial, environmental, and humanitarian sectors. We are both a space company and data company all rolled into one.
Customers and users across the globe use Planet's data to develop new technologies, drive revenue, power research, and solve our world’s toughest obstacles.
As we control every component of hardware design, manufacturing, data processing, and software engineering, our office is a truly inspiring mix of experts from a variety of domains.
We have a people-centric approach toward culture and community and we strive to iterate in a way that puts our team members first and prepares our company for growth. Join Planet and be a part of our mission to change the way people see the world.
Planet is a global company with employees working remotely world wide and joining us from offices in San Francisco, Washington DC, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, and The Netherlands.
The Storage team at Planet builds and expands the core object and...
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