Senior Software Engineer, Storage Infrastructure

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.

• 10+ years of software engineering experience of which: • 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

These offerings are dependent on employment type and geographical location, based upon applicable law or company policy. • Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans • Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution • Generous Paid Time Off in addition to holidays and company-wide days 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 access to LinkedIn Learning • Equity • Commuter Benefits (if local to an office) • Volunteering Paid Time Off