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Senior Software Engineer, Storage Infrastructure

Planet
Location
Canada, Remote
Posted
17 days ago
Department
Infrastructure and Operations
What they actually want (must-haves)
  • 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)
  • 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 the job really is

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Storage team at Planet, you will be responsible for building and maintaining the core object and metadata storage platform that supports the company's extensive data infrastructure. Your role will involve working across the stack on systems that handle data lifecycle, indexing, and search, while ensuring data is reliably stored and accessible. You will also lead project teams, contribute to the technical roadmap, and participate in design reviews to align on technical decisions.

Benefits
  • 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
Things to weigh
  • Remote position with an expectation to work from an office 3 days per week if located near one
  • No specific mention of the tech stack beyond Go and Python, which may imply a focus on legacy systems
  • The role involves significant ownership and on-call responsibilities, which may impact work-life balance
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