Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Remote Cloud & OnPrem

Planetlabs; United States; On-site; USD 143,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Home office reimbursement

Paid time off and holidays

Parental leave (16 weeks)

Equity

Tuition reimbursement

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Planet is seeking an experienced engineer to join the Direct Access Service Infrastructure team. You will build, deploy, and operate critical compute software for end‑to‑end imaging operations across customer on‑prem and cloud environments.

You’ll design reproducible deployments, ensure reliability, and collaborate across engineering teams to enable integrated software solutions. You will work in a full‑time remote role based in the United States or Canada, with occasional on‑site days if near

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience building services that leverage cloud-native infrastructure and tooling.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or similar.
• Experience deploying and maintaining bare-metal and cloud Kubernetes using Talos, RKE2, Proxmox, or k3s.
• Proficiency with Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Kustomize, and similar IaC / GitOps tooling.
• Experience with CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Argo CD, CircleCI).
• Knowledge of hardware and network implications of on‑prem compute.

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy computing services and infrastructure in customer environments for a next‑gen platform.
• Operate in a high‑impact team to architect systems for air‑gapped deployments at scale.
• Clarify requirements from ambiguous use cases defined by cross‑functional stakeholders.
• Responsible for deployments, service orchestration, and cross‑platform documentation.
• Scale architecture while ensuring service availability.
• Improve reliability by resolving edge cases, studying failure modes, and writing tests.
• Participate in on‑call rotations to ensure operational excellence.

Skills

Cloud-native

Python

Bash

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Jira

Distributed systems

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

Networking basics

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or similar

Tools

Talos

RKE2

Proxmox

k3s

Helm

Kustomize

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Argo CD

CircleCI

Job description

Planet is seeking an experienced engineer to join the Direct Access Service Infrastructure team. You will build, deploy, and operate critical compute software for end‑to‑end imaging operations across customer on‑prem and cloud environments.

You’ll design reproducible deployments, ensure reliability, and collaborate across engineering teams to enable integrated software solutions. You will work in a full‑time remote role based in the United States or Canada, with occasional on‑site days if near