Key skills
GoPythonKubernetesGoogle Cloud PlatformAmazon Web ServicesGitLab CINginxEnvoyTerraformArgoCDCrossplaneLinux internalsPrometheusGrafanaSpannerRedisPostgreSQLBigTableDistributed systemsGeospatial dataRemote sensingAWSGCPNGINXGitLabCommunication
About this role
Planet is a company that designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites in history, providing unprecedented datasets via a cloud-based platform. They are seeking a Software Engineer for the Compute Team to develop and operate distributed systems that ensure reliable execution of workflows at scale, utilizing technologies such as Go, Python, and Kubernetes.
Responsibilities:
- Spearheads the evolution of compute and data delivery services with an emphasis on scale and user requirements
- Collaborates to enable efficient and rapid access to our variety of new and growing data sets
- Improves reliability and scalability by resolving edge cases, studying failure modes, and writing tests
- Manages underlying persistence layers across Spanner, Redis, PostgreSQL and BigTable
- Owns the operation of these services by measuring performance, creating alerts, runbooks, and responding to incidents and performance anomalies
- Participates in an on-call rotation in support of our team’s services
Requirements:
- 4+ years of relevant work experience building services in a language like Go or Python, and a clear interest in becoming an expert in both
- Experience of cloud-native development - containerization, cloud services such as GCP/AWS
- Experience with a large shared codebase, continuous integration and deployment workflows, and tooling like GitLab CI
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, written and oral; can explain deeply technical topics to teammates and users
- Experience with orchestration workflows (e.g., Temporal) and batch/queue processing for high-concurrency systems
- Expertise in large-scale distributed systems, including data consistency tradeoffs and high-volume networking (e.g., Nginx/Envoy)
- Operational proficiency with Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, Crossplane, and Linux internals
- Experience implementing observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana to monitor service performance
- Experience working with geospatial data, remote sensing, and related domain concepts