Jobs at Planet

Develop, maintain, and operate Mission Control web app and supporting microservices for satellite operations. Design and implement HTTP APIs, deploy critical infrastructure, and improve automation. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure satellite scheduling, telemetry processing, and operational tooling meet mission needs. Support CI/CD, testing, and database-backed services.

Build, maintain, and operate cloud-based services and automation for satellite operations. Manage infrastructure, design/deploy critical systems, support microservices and CI/CD workflows, ensure reliability and SLAs, collaborate with cross-functional teams to minimize operational burden and automate satellite operations.

Pre-sales technical lead demonstrating Planet's Earth-imagery platform to defense and intelligence customers in Western/Northern Europe. Build demos, respond to RFIs/RFPs, advise on solutions architecture, drive account strategies, mentor team members, and support sales, product, and customer success with domain expertise in geospatial and remote sensing.

The Pre-Sales Sr. Solutions Architect supports clients in the defense sector to utilize Planet's data solutions, delivers presentations, and collaborates with various teams to enhance offerings.

Design, build, and operate Planet's scalable object and metadata storage platform. Own backend services, Elasticsearch indexing, search, event notification, and disaster recovery. Measure performance, create alerts, be on call, drive system design and architecture, mentor engineers, and contribute to the technical roadmap for highly available, cloud-native data infrastructure.

The role involves designing and validating onboard satcom links and ground radios, leading integration and testing with RF and optical communications systems, and collaborating with various engineering teams.

Drive Planet's government sales in Japan for defense, intelligence, and national security customers. Build pipeline, qualify and close deals, navigate procurement and contracting, coordinate with pre/post-sales and marketing, and manage opportunities in Salesforce to meet revenue targets.

Lead a global Deal Desk function partnering with Sales, FP&A, Product, and Legal to structure complex deals, ensure ASC 606 compliance, optimize pricing/packaging, run fast deal committees, standardize business rules, and drive automation for proposals and forecasting.

The Global Deal Desk Manager will lead the deal structuring process, optimize pricing, ensure compliance, and collaborate with multiple departments to drive customer success in deal execution.

Lead and scale Planet's global Sales Development organization to create predictable pipeline and drive revenue. Define strategy, design outbound and account-based motions, coach SDRs and managers, build playbooks, optimize tech stack, partner with Sales, Marketing, and Ops, and translate corporate strategy into execution plans.

Create compelling visual stories from Planet's satellite imagery by analyzing geospatial data, producing cartographically sound graphics and interactive content, collaborating with marketing and media teams, and ensuring accurate representation of data under tight deadlines.

The Customer Success Manager will engage with military and governmental agencies in South Korea and ANZ, ensuring customer satisfaction and retention while integrating Planet's geospatial data into their workflows.

Lead go-to-market strategy, positioning, and messaging for Planet's AI capabilities. Translate technical AI features into buyer value, drive product-market fit, produce sales enablement assets, and partner with Product, Sales, and Marketing to launch AI-powered geospatial products. Hybrid role based in San Francisco or Washington D.C.

Develops and operates Planet's large-scale distributed backend services to process satellite imagery workflows reliably 24x7. Builds cloud-native services (Go/Python) on Kubernetes/GCP, manages persistence (Spanner, Redis, Postgres, BigTable), improves scalability and reliability, implements monitoring/alerts/runbooks, and participates in on-call rotations and incident response.

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.

Build bespoke, mission-critical full-stack software for strategic (defense) customers: front-end, back-end, data integration, cloud (AWS/GCP), and CI/CD. Translate customer needs into technical requirements, mentor engineers, leverage AI tooling for rapid iteration, and deliver reliable solutions while traveling to customer sites.

The Software Engineer in Platform Operations designs and manages core infrastructure, ensuring secure, scalable, and reliable platform operations while collaborating with software engineers to improve deployment experiences.

Work on flight dynamics and mission planning for Planet's satellite constellations, including mission design, orbit determination, maneuver design/execution, conjunction assessment, and scheduling optimization. Develop and automate software tools and first-principles analyses to evaluate mission design trade-offs, collaborate with planning and ground teams, and operationalize MVP solutions to improve current and future missions.

Build hands-on Earth Observation demos and technical marketing assets by working with Planet's data, APIs, GIS tools, and scripting. Produce and edit product videos, animations, webinars, and visuals that translate geospatial workflows for technical and executive audiences. Collaborate with product and engineering, maintain an asset library, and support sales enablement.

The Senior Engineering Manager at Planet leads the engineering team, focusing on delivering products for Defense Intelligence. Responsibilities include mentoring engineers, refining processes, and collaborating across teams for effective deployment of technology.