Senior Site Reliability Engineer

The role

You will build, deploy, and operate critical compute software for a next-generation satellite operations and image processing platform. This involves designing and supporting robust systems for reproducible deployments across customer on-premises and cloud environments.

What you will do

• Build and deploy computing services and infrastructure in customer environments
• Architect novel systems for air-gapped deployments at scale
• Clarify and surface requirements from ambiguous use cases
• Perform operations such as deployments, service orchestration, and documentation
• 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

Required 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 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
• Experience working with Jira

Nice to have

• Experience with CUDA-based GPU programs
• Security expertise in sensitive environments, including implementing zero-trust architectures, hardening Kubernetes clusters, conducting security audits, and deploying workloads in air-gapped environm

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

Before you apply

• Employment is contingent upon the ability to access export-controlled information without additional export licensing

About the company

Planet designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites in history. They are both a space company and a data company.