Platform Engineer, Kubernetes, GCP & Terraform (Remote US) NEW

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

16 weeks parental leave

Home office stipend

Tuition assistance

Job summary

Planet's Platform Operations team builds and runs the core infrastructure its engineering teams rely on to deploy and scale services. You will help move from legacy tooling to modern, secure, scalable solutions and participate in the evolution of the internal developer platform.

Join a remote-friendly, US-based team delivering reliable cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes clusters (GKE), robust observability, and fast, secure deployments across Planet's services.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in platform engineering, DevOps, SRE or system administration.
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes and Linux.
• GCP or AWS experience.
• CI/CD (GitLab, ArgoCD), Terraform or Crossplane, and GitOps.
• Building services in Go or Python with Git and Docker.

Responsibilities

• Design and build Infrastructure as Code for Planet's services.
• Work on platform modernisation, including migrating off legacy tooling.
• Run cloud infrastructure, especially the fleet of Kubernetes (GKE) clusters.
• Improve observability with Grafana and set Service Level Objectives.
• Improve core systems such as the public API gateway.
• Work with engineering teams to make the platform easier to use.

Skills

Platform engineering

Kubernetes

Linux

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Go/Python

Tools

GitLab

ArgoCD

Terraform

Crossplane

Docker

Job description

Planet's Platform Operations team builds and runs the core infrastructure its engineering teams use to deploy and scale their services. You help run Planet's internal developer platform with a focus on security, scale and reliability, and you take part in a move from old tooling to new.

Key responsibilities

• Design and build Infrastructure as Code for Planet's services
• Work on platform modernisation, including migrating off legacy tooling
• Run cloud infrastructure, especially the fleet of Kubernetes (GKE) clusters
• Improve observability with Grafana and set Service Level Objectives
• Improve core systems such as the public API gateway
• Work with engineering teams to make the platform easier to use

Requirements

• 4+ years in platform engineering, DevOps, SRE or system administration
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes and Linux
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• CI/CD (GitLab, ArgoCD), Terraform or Crossplane, and GitOps
• Building services in Go or Python with Git and Docker

Nice to have

• Core platform or open-source infrastructure projects
• Highly available infrastructure at large scale or across clouds
• Networking for platform infrastructure

Remote details

• Full-time, remote, for people based in the United States
• If you live near a Planet office, you work from it 3 days a week

Salary and benefits

US base salary $127,000 to $180,600 a year depending on location (US national range $127,000 to $158,700), plus possible bonus and equity.

• medical, dental and vision cover
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• home office and internet reimbursement
• tuition support