Kubernetes & GCP Platform Engineer — Remote + Equity

The Briefed; United States; Remote; USD 127,000 - 181,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

16 weeks of parental leave

Home office and internet reimbursement

Tuition support

Job summary

Planet is seeking an Infrastructure Solutions engineer to make the cloud platform easier for its engineering teams. You’ll be the first contact when blockers arise and work with a senior engineer on tougher problems.

Responsibilities include running migrations between cloud environments, building tooling in Go and Python, writing docs, and creating dashboards for cost, capacity, and usage. Remote, US-based full-time role with a bachelor’s degree and Kubernetes experience.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or similar.
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
• Production experience with Kubernetes and public cloud (GCP).

Responsibilities

• Act as the first contact for infrastructure requests from other engineering teams, clear blockers and pass complex issues to the platform owners.
• Run workload and storage migrations between cloud environments, with proofs of concept and repeatable playbooks.
• Build tooling in Go and Python: Terraform modules, Helm charts, CLIs and client libraries.
• Write documentation, runbooks and worked examples that cut repeat support questions.
• Build dashboards that show teams their infrastructure cost, capacity and usage.

Skills

Kubernetes

Go

Python

Terraform

Crossplane

Helm

ArgoCD

GitLab CI/CD

GitOps

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

GCP

Job description

Planet is seeking an Infrastructure Solutions engineer to make the cloud platform easier for its engineering teams. You’ll be the first contact when blockers arise and work with a senior engineer on tougher problems.

Responsibilities include running migrations between cloud environments, building tooling in Go and Python, writing docs, and creating dashboards for cost, capacity, and usage. Remote, US-based full-time role with a bachelor’s degree and Kubernetes experience.