Software Engineer, Compute Team

• Spearhead the evolution of compute and data delivery services with an emphasis on scale and user requirements.
• Collaborate to enable efficient and rapid access to a variety of new and growing data sets.
• Improve reliability and scalability by resolving edge cases, studying failure modes, and writing tests.
• Manage underlying persistence layers across Spanner, Redis, PostgreSQL, and BigTable, and own the operation of these services.

Planet's satellite imagery provides critical data for environmental monitoring, humanitarian response, and commercial applications, enabling better understanding and management of Earth's changing surface.

• 4+ years of relevant work experience building services in Go or Python, with interest in becoming an expert in both.
• Experience with cloud-native development, containerization, and cloud services such as GCP/AWS.
• Experience with a large shared codebase, continuous integration and deployment workflows, and tooling like GitLab CI.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, able to explain deeply technical topics to teammates and users.

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; Home Office Reimbursement; Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement; Tuition Reimbursement and LinkedIn Learning; Equity; Commuter Benefits; Volunteering Paid Time Off. US base salary range: $127,000 - $180,600 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.