[Hiring] Senior Site Reliability Engineer @Planet

Role Description

In this role, you will join Planet's Direct Access Service Infrastructure team, directly contributing to our next-generation Constellation as a Service platform. This platform represents a major new offering to our customers that goes beyond traditional cloud-based platforms and supports on-premises deployments.

You will be responsible for building, deploying, and operating critical compute software that supports end-to-end imaging operations within customer on-premises and/or cloud environments. You will use your understanding of internal compute requirements as well as customers' environmental-specific constraints to help design, implement, and support a robust system for reproducible deployments across operating environments, to guarantee the reliability, scalability, and availability of our services. To do this, you will partner closely with cross-functional engineering teams to enable and empower the integration of software solutions and the troubleshooting of distributed systems.

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

Impact You'll Own

• Build and deploy computing services and infrastructure in customer environments for a next-generation satellite operations and image processing end-to-end platform.
• Operate in a high-impact, tight knit team to architect novel systems for air-gapped deployments at scale.
• Clarify and surface requirements from ambiguous use cases defined by cross-functional stakeholders, including internal users and external customers.
• Responsible for operations such as deployments, service orchestration, and documentation for cross platform stakeholders.
• Scale architecture while ensuring availability of services.
• Improve reliability and scalability by resolving edge cases, studying failure modes, and writing tests.
• Participate in on-call rotations to ensure operational excellence.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience building services that leverage cloud-native infrastructure and tooling.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or similar.
• Experience deploying and maintaining bare-metal and cloud Kubernetes through tools such as Talos, RKE2, Proxmox, or k3s.
• Proficiency with Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Kustomize, and/or similar IaC / GitOps tooling.
• Experience with CI/CD tooling, such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Argo CD, or CircleCI.
• Experience successfully building, releasing, and supporting highly available, consistently performant services.
• Knowledge of hardware and network level implications of on-prem compute.
• Experience with platform optimization, particularly resource optimization, management, and cluster tuning in a constrained environment.
• Ability to observe and troubleshoot distributed systems with tools such as Alloy, Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
• Advanced skills in Python, Bash, and other tooling as appropriate to build services and meet product goals.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work through collaboration with cross-functional engineering teams.
• Experience working with Jira for task management and progress tracking.

What Makes You Stand Out

• Experience with CUDA-based GPU programs.
• Security expertise in sensitive environments, including implementing zero-trust architectures, hardening Kubernetes clusters, conducting security audits, and deploying workloads in air-gapped environments.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans.
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution.
• Generous Paid Time Off in addition to holidays and company-wide days off.
• 16 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave.
• Wellness Program and Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Home Office Reimbursement.
• Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement.
• Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning.
• Equity.
• Commuter Benefits (if local to an office).
• Volunteering Paid Time Off.