Senior Infra Solutions Engineer — Remote Platform Optimizer

Planet Labs; Nederland; Remote; EUR 75,000 - 94,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home Office Reimbursement

Wellness Program

Equity

Job summary

Planet Labs is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Solutions Engineer to make Planet's infrastructure easier to use. This remote EU role sits between platform teams and engineers, owning end-to-end engagements, migrations, and ongoing improvements.

You will standardize paths, build reusable artifacts, and accelerate platform adoption across Planet’s developer base. Requirements include 6+ years in Platform Engineering/DevOps or SRE, a Bachelor’s degree, Kubernetes, GCP, Terraform/ArgoCD, and Go or

Qualifications

• 6+ years in Platform Engineering/DevOps or SRE.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
• Experience operating production infrastructure environments.
• Deep Kubernetes expertise including workload optimization and ops.
• Hands-on cloud experience (GCP or equivalent).
• IaC tooling (Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Go or Python development for tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end technical engagements with engineering teams to diagnose and unblock infrastructure challenges.
• Execute critical migrations and provide guidance to transition teams off deprecated systems.
• Accelerate platform adoption and establish standardized, well-supported infrastructure offerings.
• Build reusable artifacts like Terraform modules and Helm charts for recurring patterns.
• Enhance platform observability and cost/usage attribution tooling.
• Contribute to platform strategy with engineering feedback and pain points.

Skills

Kubernetes

Go or Python

GCP

Terraform/ArgoCD

CI/CD

Developer productivity

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Terraform

Helm

ArgoCD

Job description

Planet Labs is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Solutions Engineer to make Planet's infrastructure easier to use. This remote EU role sits between platform teams and engineers, owning end-to-end engagements, migrations, and ongoing improvements.

You will standardize paths, build reusable artifacts, and accelerate platform adoption across Planet’s developer base. Requirements include 6+ years in Platform Engineering/DevOps or SRE, a Bachelor’s degree, Kubernetes, GCP, Terraform/ArgoCD, and Go or