Planet
Senior Software Engineer, Storage Infrastructure
United States, Remote · Senior · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$172k-$215kDetected 29 days ago
PythonBackend DevelopmentCode ReviewPostgreSQLMySQLElasticsearchAWSGCPKubernetesTerraformLLMsHardware DesignResearchCommunicationCollaborationPrecision Agriculture
About the role
- 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.
- Planet's constellation captures petabytes of imagery that powers everything from climate monitoring to disaster response and precision agriculture - and the Storage team makes sure that data is reliably stored, discoverable, and accessible.
- We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help evolve this platform.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain systems that provide efficient access to new and growing data sets
- Shape technical approach and system design for the team's high-impact projects
- Help engineers on the team grow through code reviews, pairing, and design discussions
- Participate in design reviews and help drive alignment on technical decisions
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience of which:
- 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 improving codebases, documentation, and team practices through regular contributions beyond feature work
- Experience driving architectural decisions and guiding technical trade-offs across a team
- Experience supporting the growth of engineers around you through collaboration and knowledge sharing
- 6+ years of Go development experience building production backend services
- 6+ years of Python development experience building customer-facing APIs
- Fluency with AI-assisted development tools (e.g. Claude, Copilot) as part of your daily engineering workflow
- Experience building, releasing, and supporting highly available, consistently performant services
- Excellent communication skills and an ability to work well in a remote setting
- Ability to lead system design conversations for distributed backend services
Skills
- Welcome to Planet.
- Experience maintaining infrastructure with Kubernetes and Terraform
- Experience working with geospatial data before, even tangentially
Compensation
- The US base salary range for this full-time position at the commencement of employment is listed below.
- The final salary range is determined by job related experience, skills and location.
- The range displays our typical hiring range for new hire salaries in US locations only.
- Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
- New York City + California Salary Range
- San Francisco Salary Range
Benefits
- Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
- Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution
- Generous Paid Time Off in addition to holidays and company-wide days off
- 16 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave
- Wellness Program and Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Home Office Reimbursement
- Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
- Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
- Commuter Benefits (if local to an office)
- Volunteering Paid Time Off
- Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary short-term and long-term incentives (bonus and equity).
Company info
- The Storage team at Planet builds and expands the core object and metadata storage platform that underpins the company's data infrastructure.
Equal opportunity
- Planet is committed to building a community where everyone belongs and we invite people from all backgrounds to apply.
- Planet is an equal opportunity employer, and committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
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