Hybrid SRE — On-Prem & Cloud Platform Ops

Planet; San Francisco (CA); Híbrido; USD 145.000 - 181.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Medical coverage

HSA contribution

Paid time off

Parental leave 16 weeks

Wellness program

Home office reimbursement

Phone stipend

Tuition reimbursement

Equity

Commuter benefits

Volunteer PTO

Descripción de la vacante

Planet designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites to provide data to commercial, environmental, and humanitarian sectors. In this Direct Access Service Infrastructure role, you will build, deploy, and operate compute software for on‑premises and cloud environments, ensuring reliability, scalability, and reproducible deployments across operating environments.

This is a full-time, hybrid role requiring 3 days in the San Francisco office.

Formación

• 4+ years building services with cloud-native infra and tooling.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or similar.
• Experience deploying and maintaining bare-metal and cloud Kubernetes (Talos, RKE2, Proxmox, k3s).
• Proficiency with Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Kustomize, and related IaC/GitOps tools.
• Experience with CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Argo CD, CircleCI).
• Building, releasing, and supporting highly available, performant services.
• Knowledge of hardware and network implications of on-prem compute.
• Platform optimization and cluster tuning in constrained environments.
• Observe and troubleshoot distributed systems with Alloy, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry.
• Advanced Python, Bash, and related tooling.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration.
• Experience with Jira for task management.

Responsabilidades

• Build and deploy computing services and infrastructure for end-to-end satellite ops and image processing platforms.
• Architect and operate air-gapped deployments at scale in customer environments.
• Clarify requirements from ambiguous use cases across cross-functional stakeholders.
• Handle deployments, service orchestration, and documentation for cross-platform stakeholders.
• Scale architecture while maintaining availability and reliability.
• Improve reliability by analyzing edge cases and failure modes, writing tests.
• Participate in on-call rotations to ensure operational excellence.

Conocimientos

Cloud-native infrastructure

Kubernetes

Python

Bash

Distributed systems

GitOps tooling

CI/CD tooling

Jira

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

Kustomize

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

CUDA GPU programming

Security (zero-trust)

Educación

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or similar

Herramientas

Talos

RKE2

Proxmox

k3s

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

Kustomize

Jenkins

GitLab CI/CD

Argo CD

CircleCI

Alloy

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Jira

Descripción del empleo

Planet designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites to provide data to commercial, environmental, and humanitarian sectors. In this Direct Access Service Infrastructure role, you will build, deploy, and operate compute software for on‑premises and cloud environments, ensuring reliability, scalability, and reproducible deployments across operating environments.

This is a full-time, hybrid role requiring 3 days in the San Francisco office.