Solutions Architect, Professional Services Federal

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Planet designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites in history. This constellation delivers an unprecedented dataset of empirical information via a revolutionary cloud-based platform to authoritative figures in commercial, environmental, and humanitarian sectors. We are both a space company and data company all rolled into one.

Customers and users across the globe use Planet's data to develop new technologies, drive revenue, power research, and solve our world’s toughest obstacles.

As we control every component of hardware design, manufacturing, data processing, and software engineering, our office is a truly inspiring mix of experts from a variety of domains.

We have a people-centric approach toward culture and community and we strive to iterate in a way that puts our team members first and prepares our company for growth. Join Planet and be a part of our mission to change the way people see the world.

Planet is a global company with employees working remotely world wide and joining us from offices in San Francisco, Washington DC, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, and The Netherlands.

About the Role:  

Planet’s Professional Services team helps our Government customers adopt the Planet Platform and rapidly realize return on investment in Planet data and analytics. The Professional Services Federal team is looking for a Solutions Architect responsible for the implementation, integration, and analysis of new software and data products that extend the Planet Platform and deliver new capabilities to our federal customers. In this role, you will work with multiple internal teams to develop scripts and analyze data products for delivery to end users. Your work will be highly visible, directly impacting customers' ability to quickly access Planet's unprecedented datasets, as well as streamline the internal processes for adding new customers to our platform. Ideal candidates will be excited about Planet’s mission.

This is a full-time, remote position based in Europe. If located near an office, you are expected to work from that office 3 days per week.

Impact You’ll Own:

• 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

What You Bring:

• 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

What Makes You Stand Out:

• 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

Application Deadline:

November 11, 2025 by 23:59 Pacific Time (11:59 PM PT)

Benefits While Working at Planet:

These offerings are dependent on employment type and geographical location, based upon applicable law or company policy.

• 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

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