Senior Software Engineer, Go & Elasticsearch (Remote US/CA)

Planet's satellites capture petabytes of imagery used for climate monitoring, disaster response and farming. The Storage team runs the object and metadata storage platform under all of it: data lifecycle, indexing, search and operations at scale. You help evolve that platform and advise other engineers.

Key responsibilities

• Build and maintain systems that give fast access to new and growing data sets
• Improve internal data search and image processing services
• Run and tune Elasticsearch indexing for core data sets
• Own services fully: metrics, alerts, on-call and incident response
• Shape the team's technical roadmap and take part in design reviews
• Lead projects and guide less experienced engineers

Requirements

• 6 to 8 years of software engineering
• Production backend services and APIs in Go, Python or a similar language
• Relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and non-relational stores (BigTable, Elasticsearch)
• Running highly available, cloud-native services
• Daily use of AI coding tools such as Claude or Copilot
• Clear communication in a remote team

Nice to have

• 6+ years each of Go and Python
• Kubernetes and Terraform
• AWS or GCP, and any work with geospatial data

Remote details

• Full-time, remote, for people based in the United States or Canada
• If you live near a Planet office, you work from it 3 days a week

Salary and benefits

US base salary $142,800 to $178,500 a year, plus possible bonus and equity. Benefits include medical, dental and vision cover, 16 weeks of paid parental leave, home office and internet reimbursement, and tuition support.

How to apply

Applications are reviewed as they arrive and the posting can close early, so apply soon. Apply on the company's own site.