Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Kubernetes (Remote US/CA) NEW

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

Join Planet's Direct Access Service Infrastructure team, which builds a new platform that lets customers run Planet's satellite imaging operations in their own data centres or cloud. You build, deploy and run the compute software behind it, often in air-gapped environments.

Key responsibilities

• Build and deploy compute services and infrastructure in customer environments
• Design systems for air-gapped deployments at scale with a small team
• Turn unclear needs from internal teams and customers into clear requirements
• Own deployments, service orchestration and documentation
• Improve reliability by studying failure modes and writing tests
• Take part in the on-call rotation

Requirements

• 6+ years building services on cloud-native infrastructure
• A bachelor's degree in computer science or similar
• Bare-metal and cloud Kubernetes (Talos, RKE2, Proxmox or k3s)
• Terraform, Ansible, Helm or Kustomize, and CI/CD tools such as GitLab CI/CD or Argo CD
• Observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Alloy or OpenTelemetry
• Strong Python and Bash
• Eligible to access US export-controlled information (EAR/ITAR) without an extra licence

Nice to have

• CUDA-based GPU programs
• Security work in sensitive environments: zero trust, hardened Kubernetes, air-gapped deployments

Remote details

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

Salary and benefits

US base salary $142,800 to $203,200 a year depending on location (Canada: CAD 116,700 to 145,900), plus possible bonus and equity. Benefits include medical, dental and vision cover, 16 weeks of paid parental leave and home office reimbursement.