Planet's Mission Control is a web-based application that empowers spacecraft operators and analysts to monitor, control, and study our growing fleet of satellites. It is flanked by a number of distributed microservices that handle spacecraft scheduling, tasking, telemetry processing, and similar operational needs. Together, these services automate much of the day-to-day operations of Planet's fleet of satellites. The role aims to build, maintain, and operate these tools to offer a seamless interface that enables spacecraft operators, analysts, and engineers at Planet to interact effortlessly with our assets in space, minimizing operational burden and automating all aspects of satellite operations.
Requirements
- Experience in Python programming.
- Experience in API design.
- Attention to quality including automated testing, code review, and documentation.
- Experience with relational database technologies (e.g., Postgres, MySQL, etc.).
- Experience with maintaining peer-reviewed code and continuous integration and deployment workflows and tooling like GitLab CI and Docker or similar.
- Proficient Linux skills.
- Experience building services that leverage cloud-based infrastructure and tooling such as AWS or GCP.
- Experience maintaining infrastructure with Ansible or similar (eg. Kubernetes, Terraform).
- Experience working with monitoring tools like Datadog, Sentry, or equivalent.
- Experience working in microservice environments.
Responsibilities
- Maintain and augment the automation and services ultimately responsible for the operation of Planet’s satellites.
- Specify and implement new HTTP APIs and help improve existing ones.
- Evaluate and choose appropriate software technologies.
- Design and deploy critical infrastructure.
- Contribute with a team that values open and honest communication, collaboration, self-learning and initiative to solve problems big and small.
- Work closely with various teams across Planet, ranging from Satellite and Ground Operations, to Pipeline and Product teams to ensure the satellite constellation meets all of the needs to achieve Planet’s missions.
Other
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, or similar.
- 2+ years of relevant work experience.
- Ability to be a self-starter for solving problems in a dynamic environment.
- Ability to clearly communicate and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
- Knowledge of aerospace concepts.
- This position requires access to export-controlled information, and as such, employment (or hiring of a contractor) is contingent upon the candidate’s ability to access all applicable export-controlled information without additional export licensing being required by the Bureau of Industry and Security and/or the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls.
