Planet is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join their Direct Access Service Infrastructure team, responsible for building, deploying, and operating critical compute software for their next-generation Constellation as a Service platform. The successful candidate will work with cross-functional engineering teams to design, implement, and support a robust system for reproducible deployments across operating environments.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar
- 10+ years of experience building services that leverage cloud-native infrastructure and tooling
- 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 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
Benefits
- Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
- Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution
- Generous Paid Time Off in addition to holidays and company-wide days off
- 16 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave
- Wellness Program and Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Home Office Reimbursement
- Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
- Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
- Equity
- Commuter Benefits (if local to an office)
- Volunteering Paid Time Off
