Job Description
Planet's Discovery & Delivery APIs team owns systems used to request, transform, and deliver Planet Data. As Planet expands its satellite constellations and integrates more derived data products, you'll enable seamless high-throughput customer access to these powerful products. This position is responsible for building and maintaining customer-facing services –Subsciptions, Orders, and Destinations APIs – as well as several internal fundamental building blocks of the Platform using a tech stack that includes Go, Python, Postgres (PostGIS), and Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform.
Building and maintaining performant, distributed large-scale services and highly-available APIs in Go and Python with a strong emphasis on customer experience. Working closely with engineers and product managers across multiple cross-functional teams to align product & engineering goals and objectives. Writing high-quality, maintainable, observable, and well-documented production code. Owning the operation of these APIs and services by embracing Site Reliability Engineering culture, measuring performance, load testing, creating and fine-tuning alerts, dashboards, runbooks, and responding to incidents.
About Planet
Planet designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites in history and is both a space company and data company.