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November 10

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Planet

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Aerospace • Agriculture • Government

Planet is a leading provider of daily satellite imagery and multidimensional Earth insights, revolutionizing the Earth observation industry by delivering high-frequency, high-resolution data. Their insights platform allows organizations to harness data to monitor geographically dispersed locations, understand historical changes, and derive actionable insights. With applications in agriculture, energy, infrastructure, government, and more, Planet helps clients make informed decisions in a rapidly changing world.

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2010

🚀 Aerospace

🌾 Agriculture

🏛️ Government

📋 Description

• 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

🎯 Requirements

• 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.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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