Senior Software Engineer, Storage Infrastructure Software

Senior Software Engineer, Storage Infrastructure - Remote Eligible

Location:

Remote

Compensation: $172, USD / year

Job Tags:
Software

Planet designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites in history. The constellation delivers an unprecedented dataset of empirical information via a revolutionary cloud-based platform to authoritative figures in commercial, environmental, and humanitarian sectors. Planet is both a space company and a data company, all rolled into one.

Customers and users worldwide 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 environment is a truly inspiring mix of experts from a variety of domains.

We have a people‑centric approach to 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 part of our mission to change the way people see the world.

We are a global company with employees working remotely worldwide and joining us from offices in San Francisco, Washington DC, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, and the Netherlands.

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 net'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.

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help evolve this platform. You'll work across the stack — from object storage and metadata indexing to event notification and disaster recovery — on systems that operate at massive scale. The ideal candidate works independently, takes ownership of technical direction, has experience building large‑scale backend systems, and strengthens the team through engineering judgment and collaboration.

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 3 days per week.

• 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

• 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 data stores (PostgreSQL or MySQL) and non‑relational data stores (e.g. Big Table, 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…