Infrastructure Solutions Engineer

Planet Labs PBC; United States; Remote; USD 127,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

HSA

Paid time off

Parental leave

Equity

Home office stipend

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Planet Labs PBC is hiring an Infrastructure Solutions Engineer for a full-time remote role based in the United States. You will serve as a bridge between platform capabilities and engineering teams, making infrastructure easier to use and more secure.

You’ll work with teams across repositories, channels, and problems, delivering practical solutions and reusable tooling. You will build Terraform modules, Helm charts, and Go/Python tooling, while driving migrations and observability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
• 4+ years in Platform Eng/DevOps/SRE or similar infrastructure roles.
• Experience deploying, managing, and troubleshooting Kubernetes in production.
• Experience operating in Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Proficient with Terraform, Crossplane, and GitOps tooling.
• Programming with Go or Python for automation.
• Ability to drive cross-functional projects to completion and communicate across teams.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary point of contact for cross-engineering infrastructure requests, resolving blockers and triaging issues.
• Execute complex workload and storage migrations across cloud environments, creating proof-of-concepts and migration playbooks.
• Drive scoped technical deliverables within team engagements with capability owners and internal partners.
• 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 support queries.
• Instrument observability dashboards and reporting tools for cost, capacity, and usage.

Skills

Go

Python

Cross-functional collaboration

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Crossplane

Helm

ArgoCD

GitLab

Google Cloud Platform

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, 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.

What You Bring:

• 4+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, System Administration, Site Reliability Engineering, or a related infrastructure discipline.
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
• Experience deploying, managing, and troubleshooting workloads on Kubernetes in production environments.
• Experience operating within public cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Experience using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Crossplane) and GitOps tooling (Helm, ArgoCD) alongside CI/CD pipelines (GitLab).
• Proficiency in software development using Go or Python for automation and tooling.
• Ability to drive cross-functional projects to completion and communicate technical updates across team boundaries.

What Makes You Stand Out:

• Experience in a developer enablement, platform support, or internal tooling role serving software engineers.
• Experience with large-scale block storage technologies (e.g., GCP Persistent Disk, Hyperdisk, Ceph).
• Familiarity with workflow orchestration frameworks (e.g., Temporal) or large-scale batch data processing pipelines.
• Exposure to enterprise observability stack configuration and telemetry practices.

Application Deadline:

11:45p / 23:45 PT on the date stated below. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. This posting may be removed earlier than projected if a suitable pool of applications has been received. For this reason, we recommend applying as soon as you are able to.

Benefits While Working at Planet:

These offerings are dependent on employment type and geographical location, based upon applicable law or company policy.

• 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

Compensation:

The US base salary range for this full-time position at the commencement of employment is listed below. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary short-term and long-term incentives (bonus and equity). The final salary range is determined by job related experience, skills and location. The range displays our typical hiring range for new hire salaries in US locations only. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

#LI-REMOTE

• New York City + California Salary Range $136,000 — $170,000 USD
• San Francisco Salary Range $144,500 — $180,600 USD
• US National Salary Range $127,000 — $158,700 USD

San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Why we care so much about Belonging.

We're dedicated to helping the whole Planet, and to do that we must strive to represent all of it within each of our offices and on all of our teams. That's why Planet is guided by an ultimate north star of Belonging-dreaming big as we approach our ongoing work. If this job intrigues you, but you're thinking you might not have all the qualifications, please... do apply! 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 description. We don't just fill positions, we aspire to fulfill people's careers, most excited about folks who are motivated by our underlying humanitarian efforts. We are a few orbits around the sun before we get to where we want to be, so we hope you're excited to come along for the ride.

EEO statement:

Planet is committed to building a community where everyone belongs and we invite people from all backgrounds to apply. Planet is an equal opportunity employer, and committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, age,