Senior Software Engineer

• Planet’s Platform teams build and operate systems that enable customers to access and analyze Planet’s daily and high resolution imagery, as well as derived products like Basemaps. We enable customers to browse data catalogs, stream data via tile services, and orchestrate geospatial analysis
• This position is to be a contributing member of our Platform teams, developing and deploying imagery access and analysis capabilities for our customers using a tech stack that includes Go, Python, Java, Postgres and Kubernetes on major cloud platforms like Google Cloud. We emphasize scalable, observable systems leveraging open source technologies and standards when applicable
• The team is distributed throughout Europe and North America and thrives on clear asynchronous communication. Success in this role requires strong collaborative communication skills to build coworker relationships across several time zones as well as the ability to contribute to occasional team on-sites hosted in Planet’s global offices
• Build, deploy and maintain performant, distributed large-scale services and highly-available APIs in Go, Java and/or Python with a strong emphasis on customer experience
• Work closely with engineers and product managers across multiple cross-functional teams to align product & engineering goals and objectives
• Write high-quality, maintainable, observable, and well-documented production code
• Participate in code reviews to maintain high code quality and standards
• Use AI tooling throughout the development lifecycle and holding AI-assisted work to the same bar as anything you’d write by hand
• Learn and grow as a developer while making a positive impact on our products and customers; bringing the team along with you as your expertise grows
• Own the operation of these APIs and services by embracing Site Reliability Engineering culture, measuring performance, load testing, creating and fine-tuning alerts, dashboards, runbooks, and responding to incidents
• Participate in rapid response on-call rotation in support of the team’s external and internal services

Benefits

• Comprehensive health plan
• Wellness program and massages
• Flexible time off
• Recognition programs
• Commuter benefits
• Learning and tuition reimbursement
• Parental leave
• Offsites and happy hours
• Volunteering benefits

• Comfortable working with Docker containers
• Experience with Git, large codebases, reviewing merge requests, and running complex CI/CD pipelines
• Familiarity with GCP or AWS
• 6+ years of experience in software development within a production environment working preferably with Python, Java and/or Go
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field such as Computer Science, Geosciences, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience working with diverse data storage systems such as relational databases, document stores, and key-value stores
• Excellent teamwork and collaboration skills - written and verbal; you are comfortable writing an engineering design proposal and soliciting feedback to drive collaborative decisions
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly and independently, navigate uncertain and sometimes ambiguous problem spaces, and take calculated risks
• Solid understanding of software engineering best practices and development methodologies
• Solid intuition of when AI is useful in software
• Familiarity with remotely sensed products and associated metadata; you know why someone wants an ortho-rectified product
• Familiarity with geospatial concepts and standards; you’ve worked with GeoTIFFs, GeoJSON, and STAC
• Worked with observability platforms such as Grafana

• Application Deadline: December 9, 2026 by 11:59p / 23:59 CET (Central European Time)