Senior Kubernetes SRE - Remote, Air-Gapped Infra

The Briefed; United States; Remote; USD 143,000 - 203,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision coverage

16 weeks parental leave

Home office reimbursement

Equity potential

Job summary

Planet is seeking an experienced engineer to join the Direct Access Service Infrastructure team. You will build, deploy and run compute software behind Planet’s imaging platform in customer data centres or clouds, including air-gapped environments.

You will own deployments, design scalable air-gap solutions, and work with small teams to turn vague needs into concrete requirements while improving reliability through tests and observability.

Qualifications

• 6+ years building services on cloud-native infrastructure.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar.
• Bare-metal and cloud Kubernetes deployments.
• Terraform, Ansible, Helm or Kustomize, and CI/CD tooling.
• Observability with Prometheus, Grafana or OpenTelemetry.
• Strong Python and Bash skills.
• Eligible to access US export-controlled information (EAR/ITAR) without extra licence.

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy compute services and infrastructure in customer environments.
• Design systems for air-gapped deployments at scale with a small team.
• Clarify needs from internal teams and customers into explicit requirements.
• Own deployments, service orchestration and documentation.
• Improve reliability by analyzing failures and writing tests.
• Participate in the on-call rotation.

Skills

Cloud-native infrastructure

Python

Bash

EAR/ITAR eligibility

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Tools

Kubernetes (Talos/RKE2/Proxmox/k3s)

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

Kustomize

CI/CD (GitLab CI/CD or Argo CD)

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Planet is seeking an experienced engineer to join the Direct Access Service Infrastructure team. You will build, deploy and run compute software behind Planet’s imaging platform in customer data centres or clouds, including air-gapped environments.

You will own deployments, design scalable air-gap solutions, and work with small teams to turn vague needs into concrete requirements while improving reliability through tests and observability.