Solution Delivery Engineer

Welcome to Planet. We believe in using space to help life on Earth.

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 Planets data to develop new technologies drive revenue power research and solve our worlds 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:

The team you will be joining develops maintains and upgrades the suite of Area-Monitoring Markers that extract insights from satellite data time series the central element of the Area Monitoring System (AMS) solution delivered to Common Agricultural Policy paying agencies across Europe.

We are looking for a Solution Delivery Engineer to support the operational execution of our large-scale AMS deliveries in several EU this role you will be responsible for running and overseeing complex geospatial processing pipelines from preparing Planet and other satellite data and integrating reference data through configuring and maintaining signal processing to fine-tuning marker services.

This is a hands-on operational role with direct contractual impact: you will own delivery timelines sometimes negotiating them directly with the client and you will continuously look for opportunities to simplify automate and optimize the workflows that make these deliveries possible.

This is a full-time temporary position (12 months) with possibility of extension or conversion. This is a hybrid role which will require you to work from our Ljubljana Haarlem or Graz office 3 days per week.

Impact Youll Own:

• Execute and oversee end-to-end geospatial processing pipelines for AMS deliveries across several EU countries.
• Prepare Planet daily data for entire national/regional territories and maintain integration of AMS with reference field geometries.
• Configure maintain and monitor signal processing services across all declared fields.
• Configure fine-tune and operate marker services (like harvest homogeneity ploughing mowing crop classification etc).
• Own delivery deadlines for contracted outputs track progress anticipate blockers and align timelines directly with the client where needed.
• Identify and implement workflow optimizations automations and reusable components that reduce AMS-CAP delivery effort across the team.
• Collaborate daily with the data scientists and developers in the base team and across dependent teams to keep deliveries on track.
• Collect feedback from clients and partners translate it into actionable improvements and help resolve issues that come up during delivery.

What You Bring:

• 4 years of relevant work experience.
• Bachelors degree in a relevant field.
• Solid working knowledge of the GIS domain comfortable reasoning about geospatial data projections raster/vector workflows and satellite imagery.
• Operational mindset: comfortable executing monitoring and troubleshooting complex multi-step pipelines with attention to detail and a sense of ownership over outcomes.
• Awareness of and respect for delivery deadlines with the ability to communicate timelines and trade-offs clearly to both internal teams and external clients.
• Curiosity about how processes work end-to-end and a habit of looking for ways to simplify automate or optimize them.
• Highly technical mindset comfortable picking up new tools reading logs and reasoning about data flows across services.
• Cross-functional collaboration skills able to work effectively with data scientists developers and client stakeholders.
• Professional working proficiency in English the language of the company.

What Makes You Stand Out:

• Experience with Python programming particularly for data processing or geospatial workflows.
• Familiarity with the agricultural domain or the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and area-based payment schemes.
• Experience with Earth Observation data (Planet Sentinel-2 Sentinel-1) and time-series analysis.
• Familiarity with cloud-based data processing workflow orchestration or pipeline tooling.
• Prior experience interacting with clients on technical delivery topics.

Application Deadline:

November 20 2026 at 11:59p 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

Compensation:

The expected starting gross salary range for this role is listed below. Individual placement within this range is determined objectively based on gender-neutral criteria such as your skills qualifications and professional experience. This position may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses commission and/or equity.

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Why we care so much about Belonging.
Were dedicated to helping the whole Planet and to do that we must strive to represent all of it within each of our offices and on all of our teams. Thats why Planet is guided by an ultimate north star of Belongingdreaming big as we approach our ongoing work. If this job intrigues you but youre thinking you might not have all the qualifications please... do apply! At Planet we are looking for well-rounded people from around the world who can contribute to more ways than just what is listed in this job description. We dont just fill positions we aspire to fulfill peoples careers most excited about folks who are motivated by our underlying humanitarian efforts. We are a few orbits around the sun before we get to where we want to be so we hope youre excited to come along for the ride.

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