Job Specifications
Welcome to Planet. We believe in using space to help life on Earth.
Planet designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites in history. This constellation delivers an unprecedented dataset of empirical information via a revolutionary cloud-based platform to authoritative figures in commercial, environmental, and humanitarian sectors. We are both a space company and data company all rolled into one.
Customers and users across the globe use Planet's data to develop new technologies, drive revenue, power research, and solve our world’s toughest obstacles.
As we control every component of hardware design, manufacturing, data processing, and software engineering, our office is a truly inspiring mix of experts from a variety of domains.
We have a people-centric approach toward culture and community and we strive to iterate in a way that puts our team members first and prepares our company for growth. Join Planet and be a part of our mission to change the way people see the world.
Planet is a global company with employees working remotely world wide and joining us from offices in San Francisco, Washington DC, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, and The Netherlands.
About The Role
Planet’s Discovery & Delivery APIs team owns systems used to request, transform, and deliver Planet Data on and off the Planet Insights Platform. As Planet expands its satellite constellations and integrates more derived data products such as Planetary Variables, Analysis-Ready PlanetScope, and Basemaps, you'll enable seamless high-throughput customer access to these powerful products on the platform. Your contributions will enable any number of new techniques to understand our changing world.
This position is responsible for building and maintaining customer-facing services – Subscriptions, Orders, and Destinations APIs – as well as several internal fundamental building blocks of the Platform using a tech stack that includes Go, Python, Postgres (PostGIS), and Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform. The team is highly distributed and thrives on clear asynchronous communication and emphasizes highly scalable, resilient, observable architecture often leveraging several open source geospatial libraries and standards. 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 offices.
This is a full-time, remote position based in Canada or the United States. If located near an office, you are expected to work from that office 3 days per week.
Impact You’ll Own
Building and maintaining performant, distributed large-scale services and highly-available APIs in Go and Python with a strong emphasis on customer experience
Working closely with engineers and product managers across multiple cross-functional teams to align product & engineering goals and objectives
Writing high-quality, maintainable, observable, and well-documented production code
Participating in code reviews to maintain high code quality and standards
Learning and growing as a developer while making a positive impact on our products and customers; bringing the team along with you as your expertise grows
Owning 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
Participating in rapid response on-call rotation in support of the team’s external and internal services
What You Bring
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 similar technical field
Solid understanding of software engineering best practices and development methodologies
Excellent teamwork and collaboration skills - written and verbal; you are comfortable writing an engineering design proposal and soliciting feedback to drive collaborative decisions
Familiarity with GCP or 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
Solid intuition of when AI is useful in software development and when it is not
What Makes You Stand Out
Familiarity with geospatial concepts and standards; you’ve worked with GeoTIFFs, GeoJSON, and STAC
Familiarity with remotely sensed products and associated metadata; you know why someone wants an ortho-rectified product
Experience with Temporal at scale
Worked with obs
About the Company
Planet is the leading provider of global, daily satellite imagery and insights. Planet is driven by a mission to image all of Earth’s landmass every day, and make global change visible, accessible, and actionable. Founded in 2010 by three NASA scientists, Planet designs, builds, and operates the largest fleet of imaging satellites, as well as online software, tools and analytics needed to deliver data to users. Decision makers in business, government, and within organizations use Planet's data and machine learning-powered an...
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