Planet is looking to enable seamless high-throughput customer access to their powerful data products on the Planet Insights Platform as they expand their satellite constellations and integrate more derived data products. This role will contribute to new techniques to understand our changing world by building and maintaining customer-facing services and internal building blocks of the platform.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in software development within a production environment working preferably with Python or Golang
- Solid understanding of software engineering best practices and development methodologies
- Familiarity with GCP or AWS and distributed event-driven architecture
- Experience working with diverse data storage systems such as relational databases, document stores, and key-value stores
- Experience with Git, large codebases, reviewing merge requests, and running complex CI/CD pipelines
- Comfortable working with Docker containers
- Familiarity with geospatial concepts and standards; you’ve worked with GeoTIFFs, GeoJSON, and STAC
Responsibilities
- 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
- 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
- Building and maintaining customer-facing services – Subscriptions, Orders, and Destinations APIs – as well as several internal fundamental building blocks of the Platform
Other
- Excellent teamwork and collaboration skills - written and verbal; you are comfortable writing an engineering design proposal and soliciting feedback to drive collaborative decisions
- Ability to learn new technologies quickly and independently, navigate uncertain and sometimes ambiguous problem spaces, and take calculated risks
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills
- Solid intuition of using AI in software development
- 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.
