Senior Software Engineer
planetlabs • United States, Remote
Posted: March 2, 2026
Job Description
About the Role:
The Global Monitoring Service (GMS) App Team is hiring for a Senior Software Engineer to ensure fast, secure, and reliable releases through the team’s DevOps capabilities. The GMS App Team is responsible for providing a customized application for Defense & Intelligence customers from around the world. This application provides daily, near-real time monitoring and analytic insights on customer-defined sites built atop Planet’s satellite data.
This is a full-time, remote position based in the United States. If located near an office, you are expected to work from that office 3 days per week.
Impact You'll Own:
- Own the container-based application lifecycle, bi-weekly releases, and CI/CD pipelines for GMS.
- Organize and execute migrations as the service evolves.
- Manage deployments on customer-isolated Kubernetes clusters running stateful applications, persistent storage, and infrastructure-as-code (manifests/Makefiles), closely partnering with infrastructure teams to ensure operational and performance needs are met.
- Ensure high availability and performance by meeting contractual SLAs through proactive monitoring and alert response, including participation in a 24x7 on-call rotation.
- Rapidly debug and resolve complex issues surfaced by customers or internal monitoring.
- Own auth for GMS resources and provide full stack technical expertise to customer-facing teams to fulfill service obligations.
- Manage terraform deployments for data pipelines.
What You Bring:
- 6+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on infrastructure or DevOps, specifically deploying and managing containers.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a similar field.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and stateful applications, persistent storage, and node pool isolation in Kubernetes.
- Track record of owning and optimizing CI/CD pipelines and managing infrastructure via Makefiles and manifests.
- Practical knowledge of secrets management and security best practices within a cloud-native environment.
- Experience participating in on-call rotations and participating in blameless postmortems.
- Ability to monitor complex distributed systems with established SLAs and SLOs and a commitment to meeting strict performance SLOs and contractual obligations.
- A high degree of independence and a sense of ownership over the full deployment lifecycle.
- Experience deploying in secured customer environments.
- Willingness to collaborate across multiple time zones and travel quarterly for team alignment.
- Evolve systems and services intentionally and responsibly using Architectural Decision Records among stakeholders.
- Experience managing data pipelines, particularly with dbt.
What Makes You Stand Out:
- Experience working with Defense & Intelligence customers.
- Operational experiences with SQL and noSQL data stores.
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform and Grafana.
- Experience authoring Kubernetes custom resources (CRDs).
- Experience contributing to open source projects.
- Involvement with Geospatial software community.
- Familiarity with front end development practices.
- Background in Professional Services, customer-facing deployment, and solutions optimization.
#LI-REMOTE
Application Deadline:
May 23, 2026 at 11:59p PT
Benefits While Working at Planet:
These offerings are dependent on employment type and geographical location, based upon applicable law or company policy.
- 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
- Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
- Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
- Equity
- Commuter Benefits (if local to an office)
- Volunteering Paid Time Off
Compensation:
The US base salary range for this full-time position at the commencement of employment is listed below. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary short-term and long-term incentives (bonus and equity). The final salary range is determined by job related experience, skills and location. The range displays our typical hiring range for new hire salaries in US locations only. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Additional Content
About the Role:
The Global Monitoring Service (GMS) App Team is hiring for a Senior Software Engineer to ensure fast, secure, and reliable releases through the team’s DevOps capabilities. The GMS App Team is responsible for providing a customized application for Defense & Intelligence customers from around the world. This application provides daily, near-real time monitoring and analytic insights on customer-defined sites built atop Planet’s satellite data.
This is a full-time, remote position based in the United States. If located near an office, you are expected to work from that office 3 days per week.
Impact You'll Own:
- Own the container-based application lifecycle, bi-weekly releases, and CI/CD pipelines for GMS.
- Organize and execute migrations as the service evolves.
- Manage deployments on customer-isolated Kubernetes clusters running stateful applications, persistent storage, and infrastructure-as-code (manifests/Makefiles), closely partnering with infrastructure teams to ensure operational and performance needs are met.
- Ensure high availability and performance by meeting contractual SLAs through proactive monitoring and alert response, including participation in a 24x7 on-call rotation.
- Rapidly debug and resolve complex issues surfaced by customers or internal monitoring.
- Own auth for GMS resources and provide full stack technical expertise to customer-facing teams to fulfill service obligations.
- Manage terraform deployments for data pipelines.
What You Bring:
- 6+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on infrastructure or DevOps, specifically deploying and managing containers.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a similar field.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and stateful applications, persistent storage, and node pool isolation in Kubernetes.
- Track record of owning and optimizing CI/CD pipelines and managing infrastructure via Makefiles and manifests.
- Practical knowledge of secrets management and security best practices within a cloud-native environment.
- Experience participating in on-call rotations and participating in blameless postmortems.
- Ability to monitor complex distributed systems with established SLAs and SLOs and a commitment to meeting strict performance SLOs and contractual obligations.
- A high degree of independence and a sense of ownership over the full deployment lifecycle.
- Experience deploying in secured customer environments.
- Willingness to collaborate across multiple time zones and travel quarterly for team alignment.
- Evolve systems and services intentionally and responsibly using Architectural Decision Records among stakeholders.
- Experience managing data pipelines, particularly with dbt.
What Makes You Stand Out:
- Experience working with Defense & Intelligence customers.
- Operational experiences with SQL and noSQL data stores.
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform and Grafana.
- Experience authoring Kubernetes custom resources (CRDs).
- Experience contributing to open source projects.
- Involvement with Geospatial software community.
- Familiarity with front end development practices.
- Background in Professional Services, customer-facing deployment, and solutions optimization.
#LI-REMOTE
Application Deadline:
May 23, 2026 at 11:59p PT
Benefits While Working at Planet:
These offerings are dependent on employment type and geographical location, based upon applicable law or company policy.
- 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
- Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
- Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
- Equity
- Commuter Benefits (if local to an office)
- Volunteering Paid Time Off
Compensation:
The US base salary range for this full-time position at the commencement of employment is listed below. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary short-term and long-term incentives (bonus and equity). The final salary range is determined by job related experience, skills and location. The range displays our typical hiring range for new hire salaries in US locations only. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.