Software Engineer, Automated Mosaics

Employment Type: Full-time Location Type: Remote (US & Canada) Salary: Not Specified Application Deadline: September 24, 2025 by 11:59 PM PDT

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Position Overview

Planet designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites in history. Our mission is to use space to help life on Earth by delivering an unprecedented dataset of empirical information via a revolutionary cloud-based platform. We are seeking a Software Engineer to join our Automated Mosaics team, responsible for producing Planet’s Mosaic (or “Basemap”) products. These products combine image processing and engineering expertise to create spatially and temporally consistent views of Earth at a global scale, used by customers across commercial, civil government, defense and intelligence, research, and nonprofit sectors for applications like global renewables watch, deforestation monitoring, and ecosystem monitoring.

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About the Role

As a Software Engineer on the Automated Mosaics team, you will be instrumental in maintaining and enhancing Planet’s Mosaic products. You will focus on improving mosaicing algorithms, ensuring reliable and efficient data production at a global scale, and owning the systems that manage data production scheduling. You will collaborate with teams responsible for compute infrastructure, satellite data acquisition and quality control, and individual image processing to ensure high image quality and smooth delivery.

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Impact You'll Own

• Maintain and improve the image processing algorithms that create Planet’s Mosaic products.
• Ensure that data production runs reliably and efficiently at a global scale.
• Guarantee that data requested by our customers is available when needed.
• Collaborate with upstream teams (handling individual image acquisition and processing) and downstream teams (delivering data to customers or using mosaic machinery for other Planet products) to ensure high image quality and smooth delivery.

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What You Bring

• 4+ years of experience in a related field.
• Proficiency in scientific Python development.
• Familiarity with image processing methods or geospatial algorithms and data.
• Experience running workloads at scale in production.
• Excellent written communication skills to support asynchronous remote collaboration.
• Experience with collaborative coding tools such as GitHub or GitLab.
• Ability and willingness to quickly learn new skills as needed.

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What Makes You Stand Out

• Experience working with satellite imagery.
• Project management experience.
• Experience with logging, alerting, and monitoring tools for software.

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Company Information

Planet is a global company with a people-centric approach to culture and community. We strive to iterate in a way that puts our team members first and prepares our company for growth. We have employees working remotely worldwide and offices in San Francisco, Washington DC, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, and The Netherlands. We believe in using space to help life on Earth and are looking for passionate individuals to join our mission to change the way people see the world.

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Benefits

These offerings are dependent on employment type and geographical location, based upon applicable law or company policy. Benefits include comprehensive medical coverage.

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