Infrastructure Solutions Engineer

Planet Labs PBC; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Planet Labs PBC is seeking an Infrastructure Solutions Engineer to streamline infrastructure use and support cross-engineering teams. The role sits in a multi-disciplinary Infra Solutions group that partners with platform owners and engineering teams to remove roadblocks and deliver reliable infrastructure.

You will be the go-to for migration work, tooling development, and reusable playbooks, collaborating across teams to reduce toil and boost efficiency.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting cross-engineering infrastructure requests.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-to-cloud workload migrations.
• Experience building infrastructure tooling and automation.

Responsibilities

• Serve as primary contact for cross-engineering infrastructure requests.
• Execute complex workload and storage migrations across cloud environments.
• Drive scoped technical deliverables within team engagements.
• Develop infrastructure tooling.

Skills

Infra requests

Cloud migrations

Infra tooling

Stakeholder collaboration

Job description

Welcome to Planet. We believe in using space to help life on Earth.

Planet designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites in history. This constellation delivers an unprecedented dataset of empirical information via a revolutionary cloud-based platform to authoritative figures in commercial, environmental, and humanitarian sectors. We are both a space company and data company all rolled into one.

Customers and users across the globe use Planet's data to develop new technologies, drive revenue, power research, and solve our world's toughest obstacles.

As we control every component of hardware design, manufacturing, data processing, and software engineering, our office is a truly inspiring mix of experts from a variety of domains.

We have a people-centric approach toward culture and community and we strive to iterate in a way that puts our team members first and prepares our company for growth. Join Planet and be a part of our mission to change the way people see the world.

Planet is a global company with employees working remotely world wide and joining us from offices in San Francisco, Washington DC, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, and The Netherlands.

About the Role:

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.

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

Impact You'll Own:

• 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