or apply directly on Planet's site. We never take the application ourselves.
Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 13 days Planet's roles stay open a median of 34 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Planet's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Planet
- high 56 stale, 12 reposted of 127 open
- Hiring momentum
- 156 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Planet's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Planet.
About this role
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Storage team at Planet, you will enhance the core object and metadata storage platform that supports the company's extensive data infrastructure. Your role involves working across the stack, focusing on data lifecycle management, indexing, and disaster recovery for large-scale systems. You will also take ownership of service performance, contribute to technical roadmaps, and guide less experienced engineers while collaborating on complex technical challenges.
- benefits
- 5/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Planet as an employer.
What you need
- 6–8 years of software engineering experience
- Demonstrated software development experience in Go, Python, or similar modern languages building production backend services and 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 datastores (PostgreSQL or MySQL) and non-relational datastores (e.g. BigTable, Elasticsearch) and an understanding of when to use each
- Experience building, releasing, and supporting highly available, consistently performant services
Nice to have
- 6+ years of Go development experience building production backend services
- 6+ years of Python development experience building customer-facing APIs
- Experience maintaining infrastructure with Kubernetes and Terraform
- Experience building services that leverage cloud-based infrastructure and tooling such as AWS or GCP
- Experience working with geospatial data before, even tangentially
What you get
- 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
Worth weighing
- Remote work is available, but local employees are expected to work from the office 3 days a week if near one.
- No specific technologies or frameworks are mentioned beyond general languages and tools, which may indicate a need for adaptability.
- The role involves significant ownership and responsibility, which may appeal to candidates looking for leadership opportunities.
Summarised from Planet's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Planet on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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