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About the Role
Planet’s Platform teams build and operate systems that enable customers to access and analyze Planet's daily and high resolution imagery, as well as derived products like Basemaps. This position involves developing and deploying imagery access and analysis capabilities for customers using a tech stack that includes Go, Python, Java, Postgres and Kubernetes on major cloud platforms like Google Cloud. The team is distributed throughout Europe and North America and thrives on clear asynchronous communication.
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
- Learn and grow as a developer while making a positive impact on our products and customers
- 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
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in software development within a production environment working preferably with Python, Java and/or Go
- Solid understanding of software engineering best practices and development methodologies
- Excellent teamwork and collaboration skills - written and verbal
- Familiarity with GCP or AWS
- 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
Skills
- Go
- Python
- Java
- Postgres
- Kubernetes
- Google Cloud
- Git
- Docker
- AI tooling
- Geospatial concepts
- GeoTIFFs
- GeoJSON
- STAC
- Remotely sensed products
- Grafana
Location
- Berlin
- Haarlem
- Ljubljana
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 4+ years of experience in software development
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical field such as Computer Science, Geosciences, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience
Salary/Compensations
- Germany Salary Range €60.900—€76.100 EUR
- Netherlands Salary Range €59.200—€74.000 EUR
- Slovenia Salary Range €45.600—€57.000 EUR
Benefits
- 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
- Equity
- Volunteering Paid Time Off
About the Company
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
- Planet is committed to building a community where everyone belongs and we invite people from all backgrounds to apply.
- Planet is an equal opportunity employer, and committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
- Know Your Rights.
- Planet is an inclusive community and we know that everyone has their own needs. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation during the hiring process, please reach out to accommodations@planet.com or contact your recruiter with your request. Your message will be confidential and we will be happy to assist you.