Planet

Overview

Planet’s Platform teams build and operate systems that enable customers to access and analyze Planet's daily and high resolution imagery, developing and deploying imagery access and analysis capabilities using Go, Python, Java, Postgres, and Kubernetes on major cloud platforms like Google Cloud.

About Planet

Planet designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites in history, delivering an unprecedented dataset of empirical information via a revolutionary cloud-based platform to commercial, environmental, and humanitarian sectors.

Requirements & Eligibility

• 4+ 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
• Solid understanding of software engineering best practices and development methodologies
• Excellent teamwork and collaboration skills - written and verbal
• Familiarity with GCP or AWS
• Experience working with diverse data storage systems such as relational databases, document stores, and key-value stores
• Experience with Git, large codebases, reviewing merge requests, and running complex CI/CD pipelines

Key Responsibilities

• 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
• 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