Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Planet is a company that designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites in history, providing unprecedented datasets via a cloud-based platform. They are seeking a Software Engineer for the Compute Team to develop and operate distributed systems that ensure reliable execution of workflows at scale, utilizing technologies such as Go, Python, and Kubernetes.
Responsibilities
- Spearheads the evolution of compute and data delivery services with an emphasis on scale and user requirements
- Collaborates to enable efficient and rapid access to our variety of new and growing data sets
- Improves reliability and scalability by resolving edge cases, studying failure modes, and writing tests
- Manages underlying persistence layers across Spanner, Redis, PostgreSQL and BigTable
- Owns the operation of these services by measuring performance, creating alerts, runbooks, and responding to incidents and performance anomalies
- Participates in an on-call rotation in support of our team’s services
Skills
- 4+ years of relevant work experience building services in a language like Go or Python, and a clear interest in becoming an expert in both
- Experience of cloud-native development - containerization, cloud services such as GCP/AWS
- Experience with a large shared codebase, continuous integration and deployment workflows, and tooling like GitLab CI
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, written and oral; can explain deeply technical topics to teammates and users
- Experience with orchestration workflows (e.g., Temporal) and batch/queue processing for high-concurrency systems
- Expertise in large-scale distributed systems, including data consistency tradeoffs and high-volume networking (e.g., Nginx/Envoy)
- Operational proficiency with Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, Crossplane, and Linux internals
- Experience implementing observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana to monitor service performance
- Experience working with geospatial data, remote sensing, and related domain concepts
Benefits
- 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
Company Overview
Planet is an aerospace and data analytics company that builds small satellites and delivers information about the changing planet. It was founded in 2010, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is http://www.planet.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Planet has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 5 in 2022, 12 in 2021. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.