Senior Go Engineer - Elasticsearch & Data Platform (Remote)

The Briefed; United States; Hybrid; USD 143,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental & vision

Parental leave (16 wks)

Home office + internet

Tuition support

Job summary

Planet is seeking a senior backend engineer to evolve our data storage and search platforms. You will build scalable services and own end-to-end reliability in a fully remote team across the United States and Canada.

Ideal candidates have 6–8 years in software engineering, strong backend experience in Go or Python, and hands-on work with both relational and non-relational stores. Knowledge of Elasticsearch and cloud platforms is a plus.

Qualifications

• 6 to 8 years of software engineering experience.
• Backend services and APIs in Go or Python.
• Experience with relational and non-relational stores (PostgreSQL/MySQL, BigTable/Elasticsearch).
• Experience with cloud-native, highly available services.
• Daily use of AI coding tools (Claude, Copilot).
• Effective communication in a remote team.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain fast data access systems for growing data sets.
• Improve internal data search and image processing services.
• Tune Elasticsearch indexing for core data sets.
• Own services including metrics, alerts, and incident response.
• Shape technical roadmap and participate in design reviews.
• Lead projects and mentor less experienced engineers.

Skills

Go

Python

Cloud-native

Distributed systems

Elasticsearch

PostgreSQL

Communication

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

GCP

Job description

Planet is seeking a senior backend engineer to evolve our data storage and search platforms. You will build scalable services and own end-to-end reliability in a fully remote team across the United States and Canada.

Ideal candidates have 6–8 years in software engineering, strong backend experience in Go or Python, and hands-on work with both relational and non-relational stores. Knowledge of Elasticsearch and cloud platforms is a plus.