Senior Software Engineer (Storage Infrastructure)

Join Planet, a leading company in satellite imagery and data analysis. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work on the core object and metadata storage platform that underpins the company's data infrastructure. You will have the opportunity to shape technical approaches, contribute to the architectural direction, and help engineers on the team grow. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in software engineering, particularly in building large-scale backend systems, and has excellent communication skills.

• Contribuer à l'évolution de la plateforme de stockage d'objets et de métadonnées, en travaillant sur des systèmes à grande échelle.
• Construire et maintenir des systèmes qui fournissent un accès efficace à de nouveaux ensembles de données en croissance.
• Participer à la conception et à la mise en œuvre de projets à fort impact, en façonnant l'approche technique et la conception du système.
• 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
• Experience with relational datastores (PostgreSQL or MySQL) and non-relational datastores (e.g. BigTable, Elasticsearch) and an understanding of when to use each
• Experience monitoring and operating highly scalable cloud-native software
• 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
• Fluency with AI-assisted development tools (e.g. Claude, Copilot) as part of your daily engineering workflow
• Experience driving architectural decisions and guiding technical trade-offs across a team
• 6+ years of Python development experience building customer-facing APIs
• Experience supporting the growth of engineers around you through collaboration and knowledge sharing
• 10+ years of software engineering experience of which:
• 6+ years of Go development experience building production backend services
• Ability to lead system design conversations for distributed backend services
• Experience maintaining infrastructure with Kubernetes and Terraform
• Experience working with geospatial data before, even tangentially
• Experience building services that leverage cloud-based infrastructure and tooling such as AWS or GCP