About the job
Welcome to Planet Labs. We are dedicated to leveraging space technology to enhance life on Earth.
As the architects of the largest constellation of imaging satellites ever created, Planet Labs provides an unparalleled dataset of empirical information through our innovative cloud-based platform. Our impact spans commercial, environmental, and humanitarian sectors, merging our identity as both a space and data company.
Our data empowers customers globally to innovate, drive revenue, conduct research, and tackle the most pressing challenges our world faces.
At Planet, we manage every aspect of hardware design, manufacturing, data processing, and software engineering, fostering a dynamic environment filled with experts from diverse fields.
We prioritize a people-first approach in our corporate culture and community, striving for continuous improvement to support our team members and prepare for future growth. Join us at Planet Labs and contribute to our mission of transforming global perspectives.
With a global workforce, our employees work remotely from locations including San Francisco, Washington DC, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, and The Netherlands.
About the Role:
Planet Labs aims to capture daily images of the entire world, making significant global changes visible, accessible, and actionable. We are at a pivotal moment, transitioning from extensive AI research to a focused delivery model. To facilitate this, we are establishing a new product group dedicated to launching an AI Geospatial Assistant that will revolutionize how our customers utilize global imagery to address critical challenges in forensics and daily change detection.
Our objective is to simplify complex insights through an intuitive interface, requiring no user training. Operating with a startup mentality, our team emphasizes rapid learning and customer-driven milestones to efficiently progress from private alpha to general availability.
As a Software Engineer, you will play a key role in developing the backend systems that will bring our AI Geospatial Assistant to fruition. While our research teams focus on creating core models, you will be tasked with the 'last mile' of delivery, designing high-throughput backend services, scaling our systems, and ensuring that our workflows operate swiftly, reliably, and cost-effectively on a global scale.
This position is full-time and hybrid, requiring you to work from our San Francisco office three days a week.

