Senior Infrastructure Solutions Engineer arbeitnow planetlabs Remote · 9/26/2026

Primetime; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 88,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO

Wellness program

Home office reimbursement

Phone and internet stipend

Tuition reimbursement and LinkedIn L&D

Equity

Volunteer PTO

Job summary

Planet is hiring a Senior Infrastructure Solutions Engineer to make our infrastructure easier to use. You will own engagements end-to-end, diagnose and fix complex problems, and drive upstream changes while delivering durable artifacts that scale across teams.

The role is full-time and remote, based in Germany, the Netherlands, or Slovenia, with potential office days if nearby. You’ll work with Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, and CI/CD to improve production systems.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or SRE with cross‑team migration experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field is required.
• Experience enabling developer productivity and internal platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end technical engagements with engineering teams to diagnose and resolve infrastructure challenges.
• Execute critical migrations with reference implementations and tooling.
• Accelerate platform adoption as the primary technical contact for new teams.
• Establish standardized, paved‑road infrastructure offerings.
• Build reusable Terraform modules and Helm charts for common patterns.
• Enhance platform observability with instrumentation and cost visibility.
• Inform platform strategy from engineering feedback and pain points.

Skills

Kubernetes

Go

Python

Terraform

Helm

ArgoCD

CI/CD

GCP

Production

Cross-team collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

Helm

ArgoCD

Job description

About the Role

A Senior 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.

Most of what you do takes the shape of a hands‑on engagement with a team that is blocked, mid‑migration, or arriving on the platform for the first time. They usually arrive with a proposed solution rather than the problem behind it, and working out the difference is where the engagement starts. From there you own it end to end: the diagnosis, the hands‑on fix, the argument for what should change upstream, and the durable artifact that stops the next team hitting the same wall. This is a role driven by unreasonable hospitality (value out of proportion to what anyone asked us for) and backed by solid engineering and operator depth. You have run things in production, and you write the code other engineers depend on. The ideal candidate is energized by other teams' success: someone who would rather ship the thing that makes ten teams faster than own a system outright, and who does their best work in a room they don't own, with people who are not yet convinced they need help.

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

Impact You’ll Own

• Lead end-to-end technical engagements: Partner directly with engineering teams to diagnose, unblock, and resolve complex infrastructure challenges.
• Execute critical migrations: Develop reference implementations, tooling, and guidance to transition teams off deprecated systems seamlessly.
• Accelerate platform adoption: Act as the primary technical contact for new teams onboarding to Planet’s core infrastructure.
• Establish standardized paths: Consolidate disparate solutions into well-supported, paved‑road infrastructure offerings.
• Build scalable, shared artifacts: Design re‑usable libraries, Terraform modules, and Helm charts to solve recurring technical patterns across teams.
• Enhance platform observability: Implement instrumentation and attribution tooling to provide visibility into infrastructure cost, usage, and adoption.
• Inform platform strategy: Synthesize engineering feedback and common pain points to influence the broader infrastructure roadmap.

What You Bring

• 6+ years of professional experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering, including experience leading at least one cross‑team project or migration.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
• Background in technical enablement, developer experience, or solutions architecture with a focus on internal developer productivity.
• Hands‑on experience operating and maintaining production infrastructure environments.
• Deep expertise with Kubernetes orchestration, including workload optimization and operations.
• Working knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or other public cloud providers, including its compute, storage, quota, and capacity mode.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficiency in software development using Go or Python.
• Ability to translate ambiguous requirements into structured, actionable engineering tasks.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for technical documentation and cross‑functional collaboration.

What Makes You Stand Out

• Experience with large‑scale block storage (Persistent Disk, Hyperdisk, Ceph, SAN, or equivalent) operated at fleet scale rather than per‑service.
• Experience driving large‑scale migrations or deprecations that required buy‑in from teams outside your reporting line.
• Experience in a consulting‑adjacent engineering role (solutions architecture, professional services, or technical account engineering) applied to an internal platform.
• Familiarity with workflow orchestration (e.g. Temporal), batch and job‑execution systems, or large‑scale data processing pipelines.
• Experience defining and measuring platform adoption: developer‑productivity instrumentation, NPS, or internal marketshare.

Benefits While Working at Planet

• Paid time off including vacation, holidays and company‑wide days off
• Employee Wellness Program
• Home Office Reimbursement
• Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
• Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
• Equity
• Volunteering Paid Time Off

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.

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, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Know Your Rights.

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.

Application Deadline

11:45p / 23:45 CET 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.

Compensation

The expected starting gross salary range for this role is listed below. Individual placement within this range is determined objectively based on gender‑neutral criteria such as your skills, qualifications, and professional experience. This position may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses and/or equity.

Germany Salary Range €77.000 – €96.300 EUR

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