Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

• Contribute to the full development lifecycle: from discovery and decomposition to designing, building, and deploying bespoke solutions for customer challenges.
• Design and develop robust, full-stack software, including front-end, back-end, data integration, cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS), and CI/CD pipelines.
• Work directly with customers to understand their operational challenges and translate them into clear technical requirements.
• Identify reusable patterns in customer solutions to inform broader platform development.

This role directly contributes to delivering critical customer commitments, helping solve mission-critical challenges for Global Defense and Security customers, and informing future product development that supports commercial, environmental, and humanitarian sectors.

• 6+ years of relevant work experience in software engineering or in an equivalent technical role.
• Experience with geospatial software development and concepts (e.g., Rasterio, Fiona, Shapely, OpenLayers, GDAL).
• AWS or GCP experience.
• Proficiency in Python.

Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans; Health Savings Account (HSA) with company contribution; Generous Paid Time 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 LinkedIn Learning; Equity; Commuter Benefits; Volunteering Paid Time Off. US base salary range: $160,600 - $228,600 USD depending on location.

Planet designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites in history, delivering an unprecedented dataset of empirical information via a cloud-based platform to commercial, environmental, and humanitarian sectors.