Solutions Architect

Summary

Join Planet's Professional Services team as a Solutions Architect and help government customers utilize the Planet Platform. You will implement, integrate, and analyze new software and data products, working with internal teams to develop scripts and analyze data products for delivery to end users. This role directly impacts customer access to Planet's datasets and streamlines onboarding. The position is full-time and remote, based in Europe with potential for in-office work 3 days a week if near an office. Ideal candidates are passionate about Planet's mission and possess strong technical skills. The role involves building and maintaining APIs, understanding client needs, and leveraging analytical skills to deliver products and support mission requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software, Systems Engineering, or similar
• 4+ years of experience in supporting DoD/IC customers, with specialized technical experience in the general areas of systems integration
• Fluent in Golang, Python, Postgresql, & React or related technologies
• Experience with cloud deployments; GCP, AWS, Azure
• Experience designing and evolving public-facing APIs
• Experience with solving complex problems through analytical skills
• Experience scaling and maintaining production systems
• Ability to obtain and hold security clearance

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain APIs which serve our enterprise and federal customers
• Understand clients’ needs and deliver tailored solutions
• Help define, create and analyze usage metrics to drive customer growth
• Leverage analytical skills to deliver products to our federal customers and support mission requirements
• Participate in team on-call rotation to support production services

Preferred Qualifications

• Active or current security clearance
• Systems integrations experience working with multi domain/multi-level security architectures with the USG, particularly the DOD/IC
• Working knowledge of JavaScript and its mapping libraries (OpenLayers, Leaflet, ArcGIS API for JavaScript), Google Earth Engine and its SDK
• Experience with RDBMS (PostgreSQL, SQL) and distributed databases (NoSQL)
• Experience in geopolitics and data science
• Ability to pick up new technologies quickly
• Experience with building analytical products from complex datasets
• Experience with geospatial technologies and data
• GEOINT experience, imagery exploitation and analysis
• Fluent in multiple languages

Benefits

• Paid time off including vacation, holidays and company-wide days off
• Employee Wellness Program
• Home Office Reimbursement
• Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
• Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
• Equity
• Volunteering Paid Time Off