Senior Software Engineer, DevOps

Welcome to Planet. We believe in using space to help life on Earth. As a Senior Software Engineer, DevOps, you will ensure fast, secure, and reliable releases through the team’s DevOps capabilities. You will own the container-based application lifecycle, bi-weekly releases, and CI/CD pipelines for GMS. You will also organize and execute migrations as the service evolves.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on infrastructure or DevOps, specifically deploying and managing containers
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a similar field
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and stateful applications, persistent storage, and node pool isolation in Kubernetes
• Track record of owning and optimizing CI/CD pipelines and managing infrastructure via Makefiles and manifests
• Practical knowledge of secrets management and security best practices within a cloud-native environment
• Experience participating in on-call rotations and participating in blameless postmortems
• Ability to monitor complex distributed systems with established SLAs and SLOs and a commitment to meeting strict performance SLOs and contractual obligations
• A high degree of independence and a sense of ownership over the full deployment lifecycle
• Experience deploying in secured customer environments
• Willingness to collaborate across multiple time zones and travel quarterly for team alignment
• Evolve systems and services intentionally and responsibly using Architectural Decision Records among stakeholders
• Experience managing data pipelines, particularly with dbt

Benefits

• Paid time off including vacation, holidays and company-wide days off
• Employee Wellness Program
• Home Office Reimbursement
• Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
• Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
• Equity
• Volunteering Paid Time Off