Welcome to Planet. We believe in using space to help life on Earth.
Planet designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites in history. This constellation delivers an unprecedented dataset of empirical information via a revolutionary cloud-based platform to authoritative figures in commercial, environmental, and humanitarian sectors. We are both a space company and data company all rolled into one.
Customers and users across the globe use Planet's data to develop new technologies, drive revenue, power research, and solve our world’s toughest obstacles.
As we control every component of hardware design, manufacturing, data processing, and software engineering, our office is a truly inspiring mix of experts from a variety of domains.
We have a people-centric approach toward culture and community and we strive to iterate in a way that puts our team members first and prepares our company for growth. Join Planet and be a part of our mission to change the way people see the world.
Planet is a global company with employees working remotely world wide and joining us from offices in San Francisco, Washington DC, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, and The Netherlands.
About the Role:
Planet’s Discovery & Delivery APIs team owns systems used to request, transform, and deliver Planet Data on and off the Planet Insights Platform. As Planet expands its satellite constellations and integrates more derived data products such as Planetary Variables, Analysis-Ready PlanetScope, and Basemaps, you'll enable seamless high-throughput customer access to these powerful products on the platform. Your contributions will enable any number of new techniques to understand our changing world.
This position is responsible for building and maintaining customer-facing services – Subscriptions, Orders, and Destinations APIs – as well as several internal fundamental building blocks of the Platform using a tech stack that includes Go, Python, Postgres (PostGIS), and Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform. The team is highly distributed and thrives on clear asynchronous communication and emphasizes highly scalable, resilient, observable architecture often leveraging several open source geospatial libraries and standards. Success in this role requires strong collaborative communication skills to build coworker relationships across several time zones as well as the ability to contribute to occasional team on-sites hosted in Planet’s offices.
This is a full-time, remote position based in Canada or the United States. If located near an office, you are expected to work from that office 3 days per week.
Impact You’ll Own:
- Building and maintaining performant, distributed large-scale services and highly-available APIs in Go and Python with a strong emphasis on customer experience
- Working closely with engineers and product managers across multiple cross-functional teams to align product & engineering goals and objectives
- Writing high-quality, maintainable, observable, and well-documented production code
- Participating in code reviews to maintain high code quality and standards
- Learning and growing as a developer while making a positive impact on our products and customers; bringing the team along with you as your expertise grows
- Owning the operation of these APIs and services by embracing Site Reliability Engineering culture, measuring performance, load testing, creating and fine-tuning alerts, dashboards, runbooks, and responding to incidents
- Participating in rapid response on-call rotation in support of the team’s external and internal services
What You Bring:
- 4+ years of experience in software development within a production environment working preferably with Python or Golang
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Geosciences, or similar technical field
- Solid understanding of software engineering best practices and development methodologies
- Excellent teamwork and collaboration skills - written and verbal; you are comfortable writing an engineering design proposal and soliciting feedback to drive collaborative decisions
- Familiarity with GCP or AWS and distributed event-driven architecture
- Ability to learn new technologies quickly and independently, navigate uncertain and sometimes ambiguous problem spaces, and take calculated risks
- Experience working with diverse data storage systems such as relational databases, document stores, and key-value stores
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills
- Experience with Git, large codebases, reviewing merge requests, and running complex CI/CD pipelines
- Comfortable working with Docker containers
- Solid intuition of when AI is useful in software development and when it is not
What Makes You Stand Out:
- Familiarity with geospatial concepts and standards; you’ve worked with GeoTIFFs, GeoJSON, and STAC
- Familiarity with remotely sensed products and associated metadata; you know why someone wants an ortho-rectified product
- Experience with Temporal at scale
- Worked with observability platforms such as Grafana
- Bachelor's in a technical field or equivalent experience
Application Deadline: February 6th, 2026. 11:59pm PST
Benefits While Working at Planet:
These offerings are dependent on employment type and geographical location, based upon applicable law or company policy.
- Extended Health and Dental Coverage
- Health Spending Account
- RRSP with company contribution
- Paid time off including vacation, holidays and company-wide days off
- Employee Wellness Program
- Home Office Reimbursement
- Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
- Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
- Quality of Life Stipend
- Equity
- Volunteering Paid Time Off
Why we care so much about Belonging.
We’re dedicated to helping the whole Planet, and to do that we must strive to represent all of it within each of our offices and on all of our teams. That’s why Planet is guided by an ultimate north star of Belonging—dreaming big as we approach our ongoing work. If this job intrigues you, but you’re thinking you might not have all the qualifications, please... do apply! At Planet, we are looking for well-rounded people from around the world who can contribute to more ways than just what is listed in this job description. We don’t just fill positions, we aspire to fulfill people’s careers, most excited about folks who are motivated by our underlying humanitarian efforts. We are a few orbits around the sun before we get to where we want to be, so we hope you’re excited to come along for the ride.
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.
Accommodations:
Planet is an inclusive community and we know that everyone has their own needs. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation during the hiring process, please reach out to [email protected] or contact your recruiter with your request. Your message will be confidential and we will be happy to assist you.
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AI in Our Interviewing Process: Planet is committed to providing an exceptional interview experience for all candidates. We are currently exploring AI interviewing technologies to better focus on candidates and less on trying to capture notes. As such, with the candidate's consent, select interviews may be recorded and include a Planet AI Notetaker for transcription and summarization purposes. Should an interview involve use of AI interview technologies, the candidate will receive notification and have the ability to opt out both in advance and/or real-time. Opting out will not affect one's candidacy.
Candidate AI Policy: Planet embraces Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, and we encourage its responsible use. We understand that candidates may use various resources, including AI tools, to prepare for interviews and assessments. However, during any live interview stage or when actively completing assessments for this position, the use of AI tools—e.g. Large Language Models (LLMs), deep fake technology, etc.—is strictly prohibited unless explicitly prompted by an interviewer or assessment instructions. If you are unsure about acceptable use, please contact your recruiter for clarification. If an AI tool or similar technology is desired as an accommodation, please contact [email protected] with your request for assistance. Your message will be confidential, and we will be happy to assist you. Violation of this policy may result in disqualification of your application.
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