Senior Software Engineer, Storage Infrastructure

The Storage team at Planet builds and expands the core object and metadata storage platform for the company's data infrastructure, handling petabytes of satellite imagery data. The Senior Software Engineer will work across the stack from object storage to metadata indexing, operating Elasticsearch, and ensuring reliable data access for applications such as climate monitoring, disaster response, and precision agriculture.

6-8 years of software engineering experience with Go or Python building production backend services. Experience with cloud-native software, relational (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and non-relational datastores (BigTable, Elasticsearch), and building highly available services. Fluency with AI-assisted development tools. Ability to advise team members, analyze complex distributed systems, and improve codebases and documentation.