Jobs at Planet

Build, maintain, and operate cloud-based automation, infrastructure, and microservices supporting satellite operations. Develop Mission Control systems and distributed services for spacecraft scheduling, tasking, and telemetry processing. Design critical infrastructure, select software technologies, maintain CI/CD workflows, and ensure service reliability. Collaborate with satellite operations, ground operations, pipeline, and product teams while supporting end users and resolving complex engineering problems.

Build and operate mission-control software and distributed microservices supporting satellite scheduling, tasking, telemetry processing, and fleet operations. Responsibilities include designing HTTP APIs, selecting technologies, deploying critical infrastructure, maintaining automation, and collaborating with satellite operations, ground systems, pipeline, and product teams. The role requires Python, relational databases, testing, CI/CD, Docker, GitLab CI, Linux, and strong communication skills, with cloud, infrastructure-as-code, monitoring, microservices, and aerospace experience preferred.

Build, deploy, and operate highly available compute infrastructure for satellite operations and image processing across customer cloud and on-premises environments. Architect air-gapped deployments, manage Kubernetes orchestration, improve reliability and scalability, troubleshoot distributed systems, optimize constrained clusters, document operations, and participate in on-call rotations. Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to clarify requirements and deliver reproducible, consistently performant services.

The Software Engineer in Platform Operations will design and implement core Infrastructure-as-Code solutions, manage cloud infrastructure services, and collaborate with software teams to enhance developer experience.