Platform Engineer: Geospatial Data & APIs

Planet; Berlin (NH); Hybrid; USD 69,000 - 87,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home Office Reimbursement

Equity

Wellness Program

Job summary

Planet is seeking a Platform Engineer to build and operate scalable imagery access and analysis services. You will work with Go, Python, and Java, contributing to a cloud-first stack on major cloud platforms. The role emphasizes observability, collaboration across teams, and flexible deployment across Europe and North America.

The position is full-time and hybrid, requiring presence in Berlin, Haarlem, or Ljubljana offices three days a week, with distributed teams across time zones.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software development in production with Python/Java/Go.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Geosciences, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Familiarity with GCP or AWS.
• Experience with relational databases, document stores, and key-value stores.
• Strong teamwork, communication, and problem-solving.

Responsibilities

• Build, deploy, and maintain distributed services and APIs in Go, Java and/or Python.
• Collaborate with engineers and product managers across cross-functional teams.
• Write high-quality, observable, and well-documented production code; participate in code reviews.
• Own operation of APIs and services with SRE practices: alerts, dashboards, runbooks, incidents.
• Participate in rapid on-call rotation to support services.

Skills

Go

Python

Java

Teamwork

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Geosciences/related

Tools

Docker

Git

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Job description

Planet is seeking a Platform Engineer to build and operate scalable imagery access and analysis services. You will work with Go, Python, and Java, contributing to a cloud-first stack on major cloud platforms. The role emphasizes observability, collaboration across teams, and flexible deployment across Europe and North America.

The position is full-time and hybrid, requiring presence in Berlin, Haarlem, or Ljubljana offices three days a week, with distributed teams across time zones.