Experience: 6+ years
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.
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. You'll work across the stack - from object storage and metadata indexing to event notification and disaster recovery - on systems that operate at massive scale. The ideal candidate works independently, takes ownership of technical direction, has experience building large-scale backend systems, and strengthens the team through engineering judgment and collaboration.
This is a full-time, remote position based in the United States. If located near an office, you are expected to work from that office 3 days per week.
- Build and maintain systems that provide efficient access to new and growing data sets
- Extend and improve services for internal data search and image processing
- Operate and tune Elasticsearch indexing for core data sets
- Full service ownership by measuring performance, creating alerts, being on call, and responding to incidents and performance anomalies
- 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
- Contribute to the technical roadmap and help shape the architectural direction of the team's systems
- Participate in design reviews and help drive alignment on technical decisions
- 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 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
- Excellent communication skills and an ability to work well in a remote setting
- 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
- Ability to lead system design conversations for distributed backend services
- Experience maintaining infrastructure with Kubernetes and Terraform
- Experience building services that leverage cloud-based infrastructure and tooling such as AWS or GCP
- Experience working with geospatial data before, even tangentially
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