Site Reliability Engineer — Hybrid Cloud & On-Prem

Planet Labs PBC; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 181,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

HSA plan

Paid time off

Parental leave

Home office reimbursement

Job summary

Planet Labs PBC is seeking a highly capable engineer to join our Direct Access Service Infrastructure team in San Francisco. You will build, deploy, and operate core compute software that supports end-to-end imaging operations across on-prem and cloud environments.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design robust deployment solutions, ensuring reliability, scalability, and availability of services in distributed systems. The role is hybrid with three days in the SF office.

Qualifications

• 4+ 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 through tools such as Talos, RKE2, Proxmox, or k3s.
• Proficiency with Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Kustomize, and/or similar IaC / GitOps tooling.
• Experience with CI/CD tooling, such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Argo CD, or CircleCI.
• Experience successfully building, releasing, and supporting highly available, consistently performant services.
• Knowledge of hardware and network level implications of on-prem compute.
• Experience with platform optimization, particularly resource optimization, management, and cluster tuning in a constrained environment.
• Ability to observe and troubleshoot distributed systems with tools such as Alloy, Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
• Advanced skills in Python, Bash, and other tooling as appropriate to build services and meet product goals.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work through collaboration with cross-functional engineering teams.
• Experience working with Jira for task management and progress tracking.

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy computing services and infrastructure in customer environments for a next-generation satellite operations and image processing end-to-end platform.
• Operate in a high-impact, tight-knit team to architect novel systems for air-gapped deployments at scale.
• Clarify and surface requirements from ambiguous use cases defined by cross-functional stakeholders.
• Responsible for operations such as deployments, service orchestration, and documentation for cross platform stakeholders.
• Scale architecture while ensuring availability of services.
• Improve reliability and scalability by resolving edge cases, studying failure modes, and writing tests.
• Participate in on-call rotations to ensure operational excellence.

Skills

Cloud-native

Python

Bash

Distributed systems

Reliability

Monitoring

Communication

Jira

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

Kustomize

Jenkins

GitLab CI/CD

Argo CD

CircleCI

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Talos

RKE2

Proxmox

k3s

Job description

Planet Labs PBC is seeking a highly capable engineer to join our Direct Access Service Infrastructure team in San Francisco. You will build, deploy, and operate core compute software that supports end-to-end imaging operations across on-prem and cloud environments.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design robust deployment solutions, ensuring reliability, scalability, and availability of services in distributed systems. The role is hybrid with three days in the SF office.