Infrastructure Solutions Engineer

Planet; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health plan

Wellness program and massages

Flexible time off

Recognition programs

Commuter benefits

Learning and tuition reimbursement

Parental leave

Offsites and happy hours

Volunteering benefits

Job summary

Planet is seeking an Infrastructure Solutions Engineer to simplify infrastructure for engineering teams and act as the primary contact for infrastructure blockers. You will migrate workloads, write modules, and deliver repeatable playbooks while collaborating with senior engineers.

You will engage across repositories and channels to enable standardized platform adoption, build observability dashboards, and create runbooks to reduce recurring queries.

Qualifications

• Experience deploying, managing, and troubleshooting workloads on Kubernetes in production
• Experience operating within public cloud platforms, preferably GCP or similar
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field required or equivalent
• Experience using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Crossplane) and GitOps tooling (Helm, ArgoCD) alongside CI/CD pipelines

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary point of contact for cross-engineering infrastructure requests and triaging complex issues
• Execute complex workload and storage migrations across cloud environments
• Drive scoped technical deliverables within team engagements
• Develop infrastructure tooling, Terraform modules, Helm charts, CLIs, and client libraries in Go and Python
• Create technical documentation, runbooks, and worked examples to reduce recurring engineering support queries
• Instrument observability dashboards and reporting tools to provide visibility into infrastructure cost, capacity, and usage

Skills

Kubernetes

Terraform

Go

Python

ArgoCD

Crossplane

GitLab

CI/CD

Helm

Argo

Git

Observability

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field

Tools

Terraform

Helm

ArgoCD

Crossplane

GitLab

Job description

• An Infrastructure Solutions Engineer makes Planet’s infrastructure easier to use. Infra Solutions is a small, multi-disciplinary team: engineers who are as comfortable operating a system as building one, and as comfortable in a hard conversation as in a code review


• We sit between the teams who build Planet’s platform capabilities and the teams who need them, and our market is every engineering team at Planet, which we earn one engagement at a time. Teams work with us because we make their week lighter, not because anyone told them to, and every team that lands on the platform is infrastructure Planet no longer has to duplicate, secure and pay for


• This role carries the day to day of that. You are often the first person a team reaches when something infrastructure-shaped is in their way, and you are the one who does the work to clear it: reading someone else’s stack well enough to be useful, running the migration step, writing the module, answering the question in a way that stops it being asked a third time


• A senior engineer works alongside you on the parts that are still ambiguous, so you are not expected to walk into a fogged problem alone


• You will spend a lot of your time in other teams’ repositories, channels and problems. This is a role driven by unreasonable hospitality (value out of proportion to what anyone asked us for) and built on solid engineering and operational fundamentals


• Serve as the primary point of contact for cross-engineering infrastructure requests, resolving immediate blockers and triaging complex issues to core platform owners


• Execute complex workload and storage migrations across cloud environments, creating proof-of-concepts, configuration ports, and repeatable migration playbooks


• Drive scoped technical deliverables within team engagements, collaborating with capability owners and internal partners to complete infrastructure objectives


• Develop infrastructure tooling, Terraform modules, Helm charts, CLIs, and client libraries in Go and Python to enable standardized platform adoption


• Create technical documentations, runbooks, and worked examples to reduce recurring engineering support queries


• Instrument observability dashboards and reporting tools to provide engineering teams visibility into infrastructure cost, capacity, and usage

Benefits

• Comprehensive health plan


• Wellness program and massages


• Flexible time off


• Recognition programs


• Commuter benefits


• Learning and tuition reimbursement


• Parental leave


• Offsites and happy hours


• Volunteering benefits

Experience deploying, managing, and troubleshooting workloads on Kubernetes in production environmentsExperience operating within public cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP)Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field4+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, System Administration, Site Reliability Engineering, or a related infrastructure disciplineExperience using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Crossplane) and GitOps tooling (Helm, ArgoCD) alongside CI/CD pipelines (GitLab)Ability to drive cross-functional projects to completion and communicate technical updates across team boundariesProficiency in software development using Go or Python for automation and toolingIf this job intrigues you, but you’re thinking you might not have all the qualifications, At Planet, we are looking for well-rounded people from around the world who can contribute to more ways than just what is listed in this job descriptionFamiliarity with workflow orchestration frameworks (e.g., Temporal) or large-scale batch data processing pipelinesExperience in a developer enablement, platform support, or internal tooling role serving software engineersExperience with large-scale block storage technologies (e.g., GCP Persistent Disk, Hyperdisk, Ceph)Exposure to enterprise observability stack configuration and telemetry practices