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Job Description
This role involves developing and maintaining scalable, customer-facing APIs and services for Planet's satellite data platform, focusing on geospatial data processing, cloud infrastructure, and ensuring high availability and performance to enable users to access and analyze satellite imagery and derived data products.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and maintain customer-facing APIs and internal platform components using Go, Python, Postgres PostGIS, and Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform.
- Ensure high performance, scalability, resilience, and observability of distributed large-scale services and APIs.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align product engineering goals and deliver high-quality, maintainable code.
- Own the operation and monitoring of APIs and services, including performance measurement, load testing, alert creation, and incident response.
- Participate in code reviews and contribute to maintaining high code quality standards.
Requirements
- Four (4) years of experience in software development within a production environment working preferably with Python or Golang.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Geosciences, or a similar technical field.
- Solid understanding of software engineering best practices and development methodologies.
- Excellent teamwork and collaboration skills, including written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to write an engineering design proposal and solicit feedback to drive collaborative decisions.
- Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon Web Services (AWS) and distributed event-driven architecture.
- Ability to learn new technologies quickly and independently, navigate uncertain and sometimes ambiguous problem spaces, and take calculated risks.
- Experience working with diverse data storage systems such as relational databases, document stores, and key-value stores.
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.
- Experience with Git, large codebases, reviewing merge requests, and running complex CI/CD pipelines.
- Comfortable working with Docker containers.
- Ability to own the operation of APIs and services by embracing Site Reliability Engineering culture, including measuring performance, load testing, creating and fine-tuning alerts, dashboards, runbooks, and responding to incidents.
- Willingness to participate in rapid response on-call rotation in support of the team’s external and internal services.
Benefits & Perks
Extended Health and Dental Coverage
Health Spending Account
RRSP with company contribution
Paid time off including vacation, holidays, and company-wide days off
Employee Wellness Program
Home Office Reimbursement
Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
Quality of Life Stipend
Equity
Volunteering Paid Time Off
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