Planet designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites in history.
Key Responsibilities
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.
Requirements
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
Benefits & Perks
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
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