Planet operates a constellation of over 200 satellites that image the entire Earth's landmass daily, generating more than 350 million square kilometers of imagery. This isn't a data lake - it's a data ocean, and it flows continuously. The security surface is massive: orbital assets, ground stations, petabyte-scale data pipelines, and downstream analytics platforms serving agriculture, climate monitoring, disaster response, and government intelligence. Protecting the integrity and confidentiality of this data matters because the signal is global change itself - crop yields, deforestation, military movements, disaster zones.
The technical domains run deep: satellite imaging, remote sensing, geospatial analysis, and the analytics stack that turns raw pixels into decision-grade intelligence. Threat models span the full spectrum - supply chain compromise of spacecraft components, adversarial manipulation of downlinked data, unauthorized access to sensitive geospatial intelligence, and the usual enterprise attack surfaces layered on top. The company operates as a Public Benefit Corporation, headquartered in San Francisco, with teams in Berlin, Washington D.C., Haarlem, Ljubljana, Graz, and distributed globally.
Founded in 2010, Planet sits at the intersection of space infrastructure and data security. The mission is to make planetary change visible and actionable, but the operational reality demands rigorous security engineering across embedded systems, cloud infrastructure, and the analytics layer where satellite data becomes intelligence. If you're building or defending systems where data integrity has real-world stakes - agricultural policy, disaster response, national security - this is a place where that work carries weight.
