Senior Software Engineer, Storage Infrastructure

Planet Labs PBC; United States; On-site; USD 160,600 - 215,200; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans

Generous Paid Time Off

Wellness Program

Home Office Reimbursement

Tuition Reimbursement

Job summary

Planet Labs PBC is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for a full-time remote role in the United States. The successful candidate will build and maintain systems that provide efficient access to data, improve internal data services, and operate Elasticsearch indexing.

Candidates should have over 10 years of software engineering experience, specifically in Go and Python development, and fluency with AI-assisted tools. This role includes significant responsibilities in system design and has numerous benefits such as healthcare plans and paid parental leave.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 6+ years Go and Python.
• Fluency with AI-assisted development tools as part of your workflow.
• Experience with monitoring and operating scalable cloud-native software.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain systems for efficient access to data sets.
• Extend services for internal data search and image processing.
• Operate and tune Elasticsearch indexing for core data sets.

Skills

Go development

Python development

AI-assisted development tools

Cloud-native software monitoring

Relational datastores

Non-relational datastores

Excellent communication skills

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

GCP

Job description

About the Role:

The Storage team at Planet builds and expands the core object and metadata storage platform that underpins the company's data infrastructure. The platform provides a horizontally scalable architecture that lets teams across the organization focus on what they do best while Storage handles data lifecycle, indexing, search, and all day‑2 operations of managing a datastore at scale. Planet's constellation captures petabytes of imagery that powers everything from climate monitoring to disaster response and precision agriculture – and the Storage team makes sure that data is reliably stored, discoverable, and accessible.

This is a full‑time, remote position based in the United States. If located near an office, you are expected to work from that office three days per week.

Impact You'll Own:

• 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
• Full service ownership by measuring performance, creating alerts, being on‑call, and responding to incidents and performance anomalies
• Shape technical approach and system design for the team's high‑impact projects
• Help engineers on the team grow through code reviews, pairing, and design discussions
• 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

What You Bring:

• 10+ years of software engineering experience of which:
  • 6+ years of Go development experience building production backend services
  • 6+ years of Python development experience building customer‑facing 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 driving architectural decisions and guiding technical trade‑offs across a team
• Experience supporting the growth of engineers around you through collaboration and knowledge sharing
• Ability to lead system design conversations for distributed backend services

What Makes You Stand Out:

• 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 While Working at Planet:

• 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

Compensation:

The US base salary range for this full‑time position at the commencement of employment is listed below. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary short‑term and long‑term incentives (bonus and equity). The final salary range is determined by job‑related experience, skills and location. The range displays our typical hiring range for new hire salaries in US locations only. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

New York City + California Salary Range: $172,200 — $215,200 USD

San Francisco Salary Range: $182,900 — $2,286,000 USD

US National Salary Range: $160,600 — $200,800 USD

EEO Statement:

Planet is committed to building a community where everyone belongs and we invite people from all backgrounds to apply. Planet is an equal opportunity employer, and committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Know Your Rights.