Senior Software Engineer, Storage Infrastructure

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🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $142.8k - $178.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🔙 Backend Engineer

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Planet

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2010

🚀 Aerospace

🌾 Agriculture

🏛️ Government

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.

📋 Description

• Build and maintain systems that provide efficient access to new and growing data sets • Extend and improve services for internal data search and image processing • Operate and tune Elasticsearch indexing for core data sets • Own services end to end by measuring performance, creating alerts, being on call, and responding to incidents and performance anomalies • Determine methods and procedures on new assignments, evaluating variable factors to deliver complex solutions • Act as an advisor to others and lead project teams or oversee assignments of lower-level engineers • Contribute to the technical roadmap and help shape the architectural direction of the team's systems • Participate in design reviews and help drive alignment on technical decisions

🎯 Requirements

• 6–8 years of software engineering experience • Demonstrated software development experience in Go, Python, or similar modern languages building production backend services and APIs • Fluency with AI-assisted development tools (e.g. Claude, Copilot) as part of your daily engineering workflow • Experience monitoring and operating highly scalable cloud-native software • Experience with relational datastores (PostgreSQL or MySQL) and non-relational datastores (e.g. BigTable, Elasticsearch) and an understanding of when to use each • Experience building, releasing, and supporting highly available, consistently performant services • Excellent communication skills and an ability to work well in a remote setting • Experience improving codebases, documentation, and team practices through regular contributions beyond feature work • Experience exercising judgment in selecting methods and adapting complex techniques for obtaining results • Ability to advise team members on complex technical matters and adapt communication styles for key contacts • Ability to analyze complex issues and provide in-depth technical evaluation for distributed backend services • What Makes You Stand Out: 6+ years of Go development experience building production backend services • What Makes You Stand Out: 6+ years of Python development experience building customer-facing APIs • Experience maintaining infrastructure with Kubernetes and Terraform • Experience building services that leverage cloud-based infrastructure and tooling such as AWS or GCP • Experience working with geospatial data before, even tangentially

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans • Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution • Generous Paid Time Off in addition to holidays and company-wide days off • 16 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave • Wellness Program and Employee Assistance Program (EAP) • Home Office Reimbursement • Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement • Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning • Equity • Commuter Benefits (if local to an office) • Volunteering Paid Time Off