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How Planet hires
Truth index
B 81/100
Median time to fill
60 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
56%
Reposted roles
0%
Planet scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 25 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 56% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 60 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Planet is an American Earth observation company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange as Planet Labs PBC, that designs, builds and operates a large fleet of imaging satellites and sells daily satellite imagery, data and analytics. Founded in 2010 by three former NASA scientists, it serves agriculture, government, defence, mapping and environmental customers through online platforms and software tools. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
News
Astronomers Just Found the Youngest Planet Ever Seen. It Shouldn't Be So Huge
Elias 2-24 b challenges even our best models of planet formation.
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Astronomers discover their youngest baby exoplanet yet
Astronomers discovered Elias 2-24 b, the youngest planet on record, at less than 1 million years. It breaks planet-forming rules.
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Billions of Years Ago, Venus May Have Had a Moon-Which the Planet Promptly Gobbled Up, Study Suggests
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Astronomers just found the youngest known planet ever
Astronomers have confirmed a Jupiter-size planet less than a million years old, making Elias 2-24 b the youngest known planet and giving scientists a rare look at a world still being born. Its surprisingly rapid formation challenges leading theories about
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Newfound 'Baby' Planet Smashes Record for Youngest Known World
Astronomers have confirmed a world that's less than a million years old as the youngest known planet, using data from NASA-funded archives. Called Elias 2-24
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The powerful millionaires hiding in plain sight
They own car dealerships, law firms, dental practices, and restaurant chains. Collectively, these overlooked business owners hold far more wealth than the Forbes 400 - and wield considerable political power.
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'Fingerprints' inside the Sun could reveal if it once swallowed a planet
drupal-mediadata-view-mode=half_page_width { display: inline-block; width: 50%; } It is thought the Sun may have engulfed a super-Earth-sized planet earlyin its h...
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Planet Labs' Open Satellite Feed
Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Planet over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
108
Postings analysed
107
Stack modernity
82/100AI adopter
Languages
Python71%
Go19%
SQL15%
JavaScript11%
Frameworks & libraries
GDAL22%
React.js8%
OpenLayers6%
Next.js3%
Databases
PostgreSQL17%
MySQL7%
ElasticSearch3%
Google Bigtable3%
Cloud & platforms
GCP34%
AWS29%
Kubernetes22%
Linux17%
AI & ML
Claude6%
LLM4%
Gemini3%
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Full Planet tech stack
108 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$117k
Typical range
$40k – $366k
Open positions
89
89
Jobs
Junior
6.7%
Middle
25.8%
Senior
51.7%
Staff
1.1%
Architect
14.6%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 6 | $74k | $40k – $143k |
| Middle | 23 | $85k | $51k – $181k |
| Senior | 46 | $125k | $71k – $289k |
| Staff | 1 | $181k | $181k |
| Architect | 13 | $155k | $88k – $366k |
Highest paying role
Vice President Defense and Intelligence Engineering
$366k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Planet
By role, level and city, against the market · 89 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
76/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
111
26 opened / 34 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
50 days
faster than 27% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~3 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
12% ▲
Solutions
11% ▲
Sales
10% ▲
Product
9% ▼
Customer Success
9% ▼
DevOps
6% ▲
Actively hiring for Solutions (+6 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added JAX to stack
Oct 2026
Added Jackson to stack
Oct 2026
New location: Arlington
Oct 2026
New location: Abu Dhabi
Sep 2026
Added PySide6 to stack
Sep 2026
Added Canva to stack
Sep 2026
Added PKI to stack
Sep 2026
Added Active Directory to stack
Sep 2026
Added Unix to stack
Sep 2026
Added Microsoft Office to stack
Sep 2026
Added Windows to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
12
Hiring now
11
Countries
9
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco
United States
HQ
San Francisco Office
33 open roles 36 posted in 90 days 21% engineering 50-200 est. staff $188k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, Industrial Engineering, Leadership
645 Harrison St., Floor 4, San Francisco, California 94107
Washington
United States
Sales office
Washington D.C. Office
27 open roles 26 posted in 90 days 11% engineering 50-200 est. staff $194k Avg Salary
hires for Product, Leadership, Sales
Arlington
United States
Regional office
16 open roles 17 posted in 90 days 13% engineering 10-50 est. staff $182k Avg Salary
hires for Product, Solutions, Leadership
Berlin
Germany
Support & operations
Berlin Office
15 open roles 18 posted in 90 days 27% engineering 50-200 est. staff $91k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Management, Industrial Engineering
Berlin Decks, Building 2 Friedrich-Krause-Ufer 16-21 13353 Berlin, Germany
Haarlem
Netherlands
Support & operations
Haarlem Office
7 open roles 10 posted in 90 days 57% engineering 10-50 est. staff $92k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Data Science, DevOps
Wilhelminastraat 43a, 2011 VK Haarlem, The Netherlands
Ljubljana
Slovenia
Engineering / R&D
Ljubljana Office
7 open roles 8 posted in 90 days 71% engineering 10-50 est. staff $70k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Data Science, DevOps
Denver
United States
Regional office
4 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $219k Avg Salary
hires for Leadership, Product
London
United Kingdom
Support & operations
United Kingdom, Remote
2 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $107k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing, Customer Success
Graz
Austria
Regional office
Graz Office
1 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 1-10 est. staff $76k Avg Salary
hires for Data Science
AULA city Mariahilfer Straße 1/Top 10 8020 Graz, Austria
Stockholm
Sweden
Sales office
EMEA, Remote
1 open roles 1-10 est. staff $84k Avg Salary
hires for Solutions
Abu Dhabi
United Arab Emirates
Sales office
EMEA, Remote
1 open roles 1-10 est. staff
hires for Solutions
Singapore
Singapore
Regional office
Singapore, Remote
8 Marina Boulevard #29-01, Marina Bay Financial Center, Singapore 018981
Earlier presence
Arlington, United States
Seoul, South Korea
Jobs
$84k – $105k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 6+ years exp • Haarlem
Terraform
OpenShift
Azure
AWS
Kubernetes
Cybersecurity
GDPR
Cryptography
Vault
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$86k – $108k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 6+ years exp • Berlin
Terraform
OpenShift
Azure
AWS
Kubernetes
Cybersecurity
GDPR
Cryptography
Vault
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$86k – $108k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 6+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Berlin
AI Agents
Time Series Forecasting
Agentic Workflows
DevOps
Git
Cybersecurity
GDPR
Design
Figma
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$75k – $93k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 6+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Haarlem
AI Agents
Time Series Forecasting
Agentic Workflows
DevOps
Git
Cybersecurity
GDPR
Design
Figma
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$181k – $226k per year • Hybrid • TS/SCI • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Arlington • Denver • Washington
Embeddings
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
DevOps
AWS
Cybersecurity
GDPR
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$136k – $170k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • United States
Python
Go
Terraform
GCP
Helm
Crossplane
CI/CD
GitOps
ArgoCD
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
GitLab
Cybersecurity
GDPR
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$93k – $117k per year • Hybrid • TS/SCI • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Arlington • Washington
Python
JavaScript
SQL
PostgreSQL
Frontend
OpenLayers
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
Linux
Cybersecurity
GDPR
SpaceTech
GDAL
QGIS
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$86k – $108k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 6+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Berlin
Python
Terraform
Ansible
CI/CD
Jenkins
Git
Docker
SaltStack
Self-Healing
Proxmox VE
KVM
GitLab
IAM
Amazon ECS
Linux
Cybersecurity
Keycloak
Okta
GDPR
Zero Trust
Auth0
Active Directory
PKI
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$84k – $105k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 6+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Haarlem
Python
Terraform
Ansible
CI/CD
Jenkins
Git
Docker
SaltStack
Self-Healing
Proxmox VE
KVM
GitLab
IAM
Amazon ECS
Linux
Cybersecurity
Keycloak
Okta
GDPR
Zero Trust
Auth0
Active Directory
PKI
Apply
$118k – $148k per year • Hybrid • TS/SCI • Full-Time • 6+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Washington • Arlington
Python
GDPR
SpaceTech
GDAL
QGIS
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$58k – $72k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Berlin
Python
JavaScript
Perl
MySQL
DevOps
AWS
Cybersecurity
GDPR
SpaceTech
QGIS
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$145k – $181k per year • In office • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Francisco
Python
Bash
Docker
Linux
Unix
Cybersecurity
GDPR
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