SRE — Hybrid Cloud & On-Prem Platform for Satellite Ops

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Home Office Reimbursement

Monthly Phone and Internet Reimb.

Tuition Reimbursement and LinkedIn/LMS

Commuter Benefits

Volunteering Paid Time Off

Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vis

Job summary

Planet Labs in San Francisco is seeking a senior infrastructure engineer to join the Direct Access Service Infrastructure team. You will build, deploy, and operate compute software for on-premises and cloud environments, enabling reproducible deployments across platforms and ensuring reliability, scalability, and availability.

Work is hybrid with the SF office three days a week. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, design air-gapped deployments, and help scale our Constellation as a

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, including internal users and external customers.
• 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 infra

Distributed systems troubleshooting

Python & Bash

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Talos

RKE2

Proxmox

K3s

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

Kustomize

Jenkins

GitLab CI/CD

Argo CD

CircleCI

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Alloy

Job description

Planet Labs in San Francisco is seeking a senior infrastructure engineer to join the Direct Access Service Infrastructure team. You will build, deploy, and operate compute software for on-premises and cloud environments, enabling reproducible deployments across platforms and ensuring reliability, scalability, and availability.

Work is hybrid with the SF office three days a week. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, design air-gapped deployments, and help scale our Constellation as a