Software Engineer, Missions Software

Core responsibilities:

• Maintain and augment the automation and services ultimately responsible for the operation of Planet's satellites, including specifying and implementing new HTTP APIs, evaluating software technologies, and designing and deploying critical infrastructure.
• Contribute with a team that values open and honest communication, collaboration, self-learning and initiative to solve problems big and small.
• Work closely with various teams across Planet, ranging from Satellite and Ground Operations, to Pipeline and Product teams to ensure the satellite constellation meets all of the needs to achieve Planet's missions.

This role creates positive change by building and maintaining software that operates Planet's satellite constellation, which delivers empirical data to commercial, environmental, and humanitarian sectors to help solve the world's toughest obstacles.

Required skills and qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, or similar.
• 2+ years of relevant work experience.
• Experience in Python programming and API design.
• Experience with relational database technologies (e.g., Postgres, MySQL, etc.).
• Experience with maintaining peer-reviewed code and continuous integration and deployment workflows and tooling like GitLab CI and Docker or similar.
• Proficient Linux skills.
• Ability to be a self-starter for solving problems in a dynamic environment.
• Ability to clearly communicate and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Benefits include 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, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Home Office Reimbursement, Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement, Tuition Reimbursement, access to LinkedIn Learning, Equity, Commuter Benefits (if local to an office), and Volunteering Paid Time Off.

Salary ranges: New York City + California: $107,500—$134,300 USD; San Francisco: $115,800—$142,700 USD; US National: $100,300—$125,400 USD.

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 authoritative figures in commercial, environmental, and humanitarian sectors to help solve the world's toughest obstacles.