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Manage end-to-end global logistics and supply chain operations for satellite ground stations. Responsibilities include procurement, vendor and contract negotiations, international shipping, customs coordination, export/import compliance, freight forwarding, equipment delivery, and spare-parts inventory reconciliation. The role partners with IT, trade compliance, and mission control teams to maintain operational readiness across geographically distributed facilities.

Build and operate Planet’s large-scale storage infrastructure, including object storage, metadata indexing, Elasticsearch search, event notification, and disaster recovery. Develop highly available backend services and APIs, monitor and tune production systems, respond to incidents, and improve performance. Advise engineers, lead technical projects, contribute to architectural roadmaps, participate in design reviews, and support engineering practices and documentation.

Build and operate highly scalable storage infrastructure supporting petabyte-scale imagery data. Responsibilities include developing backend services and APIs, managing object storage and metadata indexing, tuning Elasticsearch, improving disaster recovery, monitoring performance, responding to incidents, contributing to architecture and roadmaps, and advising engineers. The role requires strong production software engineering experience with Go or Python, cloud-native systems, relational and non-relational databases, and highly available services.

Generate qualified enterprise and government account leads for Account Executives across North America. Research target accounts, identify stakeholders, create engagement strategies, develop account plans, and execute messaging sequences. Build familiarity with Planet’s satellite imagery and cloud data platform, communicate business value, achieve monthly performance targets, and ensure seamless handoffs to Account Executives. The role collaborates with Account Executives and field marketing in a hybrid San Francisco office environment.

Implements and audits quality management systems, develops inspection protocols, supports production troubleshooting, and leads root-cause analysis for manufacturing nonconformances. The role monitors quality metrics, conducts PFMEA and Lean Kaizen activities, improves process capability, manages MRB and supplier corrective actions, prepares audit materials, authors technical documentation, and mentors quality technicians while partnering with engineering, manufacturing, testing, maintenance, and supply chain teams.

Lead frontend development for a satellite-data monitoring application serving defense and intelligence customers. Design and implement React and TypeScript features, guide frontend architecture, contribute to backend APIs, mentor engineers through reviews and technical discussions, and collaborate with product managers and designers. Own feature delivery from discovery through deployment while improving state management, data fetching, component design, testing, and frontend best practices.

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.

Designs and presents geospatial solutions for German defense and intelligence customers. Responsibilities include advising stakeholders on solutions architecture, delivering product demonstrations, preparing tender and RFP responses, supporting sales strategy, managing technical customer engagements, presenting to government executives, and mentoring junior team members. The role requires imagery processing, geospatial data manipulation, API integration, data pipeline development, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Leads and scales multidisciplinary engineering teams developing mission-critical defense and intelligence software using satellite imagery, geospatial analytics, AI/ML, and cloud platforms. Owns architecture, systems development, operational reliability, deployment pipelines, compliance with ITAR/EAR, and product engineering roadmaps. Partners with product and executive leadership to deliver high-throughput analytics, real-time alerting, automated detection, and secure commercial and sovereign-cloud solutions.

Leads and scales multidisciplinary engineering teams developing defense and intelligence software products from satellite imagery and APIs. Owns architecture, data models, AI/ML integration, deployment pipelines, system reliability, performance SLAs, and ITAR/EAR compliance. Partners with product and executive leaders to deliver geospatial analytics, real-time alerting, automated detection, and agentic workflows across commercial and sovereign cloud environments.