About the Role:  

Come and help us build usage tracking and reporting systems that will help elevate the value that Planet provides its users, as well as constantly improving the visibility & insights various teams in Planet have on usage.

In this role you will provide software, services, dashboards, and data pipelines, as well as mapping solutions. From customer service, to business intelligence to other software engineering teams, the system you will build and maintain will be the glue that helps bind the different aspects of Planet together, helping the business to push to the next level.

This is a relatively new team at Planet, so you’ll have a great opportunity to influence and shape the team’s future.

If you are passionate about space, geospatial data and machine learning, Planet is the right choice. 

Impact You'll Own:

• Build & Maintain usage related software & services, for tracking and reporting.
• Design and develop dashboards using Google Cloud Platform BigQuery, Grafana and other Planet systems to provide up-to-date information where it is needed.
• Write well documented, tested, scalable and maintainable code for production services.
• Help design and implement the next generation of usage tracking at Planet.

What You Bring:

• A positive, can-do attitude to work
• True passion about what you do, and ability to infect others with that passion
• Adaptability and openness to changes and challenges
• An ability to communicate and challenge the ideas of your peers in a respectful, open manner
• Excellent development skills in Python and/ or Golang (Willingness to learn both is required)
• Experience with using  tools and services of the Google Cloud Platform, including BigQuery, PubSub, Dataflow & similar
• Proven experience using Kubernetes & Docker
• Excellent understanding of DevOps & CI/CD Workflows

What Makes You Stand Out:

• Experience in
• Data Pipelines (Airflow / Dataflow / Apache BEAM / PySpark)
• Data visualization
• Proven experience with PostGIS
• Agile software development methods
• Microservice architectures
• Front-end development knowledge, using modern frameworks such as React
• Knowledge of
• Google Cloud Platform
• Geospatial data and algorithm domains
• Web development standards like MVC, MVT

Benefits While Working at Planet:

• Additional company winter holidays and regular global days off
• Remote friendly work environment and flexible working hours
• Contribution to our growth by offering equity options for employees
• Giving back to the community - one day per quarter for charitable work
• Learning and Tuition Reimbursement
• Regular hack-weeks and meetup events to exchange knowledge
• Home office budget
• Employee Resource Groups providing empowering spaces for connection and mentorship

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