Planet
Software Engineer, Compute Team
United States, Remote; Canada Remote · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$136k-$170kDetected 7 days ago
PythonGoDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentGitPostgreSQLRedisAWSGCPKubernetesTerraformCI/CDLinuxNginxPrometheusGrafanaTemporalLLMsHardware DesignResearchCommunicationRemote SensingArgo CD
About the role
- 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.
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Collaborates to enable efficient and rapid access to our variety of new and growing data sets
- 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
- Planet is committed to building a community where everyone belongs and we invite people from all backgrounds to apply.
- Planet is an inclusive community and we know that everyone has their own needs.
Requirements
- 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
- Experience with orchestration workflows (e.g., Temporal) and batch/queue processing for high-concurrency systems.
- Expertise in large-scale distributed systems, including data consistency tradeoffs and high-volume networking (e.g., Nginx/Envoy).
- Operational proficiency with Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, Crossplane, and Linux internals.
- Experience implementing observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana to monitor service performance.
- 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.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, written and oral; can explain deeply technical topics to teammates and users
Skills
- Welcome to Planet.
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.
- 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
- US National 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).
Equal opportunity
- 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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Visa & Work Authorization
- Should an interview involve use of AI interview technologies, the candidate will receive notification and have the ability to opt out both in advance and/or real-time.
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