Senior Platform Engineer - Geospatial Cloud

Planet Labs; Haarlem; Hybrid; EUR 75,000 - 94,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Wellness Program

Home Office Reimbursement

Equity

Tuition Reimbursement

Job summary

Planet Labs in Haarlem is seeking a senior platform software engineer to help build and operate scalable imaging data services. You’ll contribute to Go, Python and Java components, deploying to Kubernetes on major cloud platforms, with a strong emphasis on reliability, observability and customer experience.

The role is full-time and hybrid, requiring three days on-site in Haarlem. You’ll work with distributed teams across Europe and North America, participate in code reviews, and push for robust

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in software development within a production environment with Python, Java and/or Go.
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• Solid understanding of software engineering best practices and development methodologies.
• Familiarity with GCP or AWS.
• Experience with Docker containers and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Git and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with diverse data storage systems such as relational databases, document stores, and key‑value stores.
• Excellent problem‑solving, analytical, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Build, deploy and maintain high-performance distributed services and APIs in Go, Java and/or Python.
• Collaborate with engineers and product managers across teams to align goals.
• Write clean, observable, well-documented production code and participate in code reviews.
• Support AI tooling across the development lifecycle and maintain quality thresholds.
• Own operation of APIs and services with SRE practices, including monitoring, alerts, dashboards and incident response.
• Contribute to on-call rotations for external and internal services.

Skills

Python

Go

Java

Kubernetes

Docker

Git

CI/CD pipelines

GCP

AWS

PostgreSQL

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical field

Tools

Grafana

PostgreSQL

Job description

Planet Labs in Haarlem is seeking a senior platform software engineer to help build and operate scalable imaging data services. You’ll contribute to Go, Python and Java components, deploying to Kubernetes on major cloud platforms, with a strong emphasis on reliability, observability and customer experience.

The role is full-time and hybrid, requiring three days on-site in Haarlem. You’ll work with distributed teams across Europe and North America, participate in code reviews, and push for robust