Senior Infrastructure Solutions Engineer

The role

A Senior Infrastructure Solutions Engineer makes Planet's infrastructure easier to use by partnering with engineering teams. You will diagnose and resolve complex infrastructure challenges, execute migrations, and build scalable shared artifacts.

What you will do

• Lead end-to-end technical engagements
• Execute critical migrations
• Accelerate platform adoption
• Establish standardized paths
• Build scalable, shared artifacts
• Enhance platform observability
• Inform platform strategy

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of professional experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering
• Experience leading at least one cross-team project or migration
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field
• Background in technical enablement, developer experience, or solutions architecture
• Hands-on experience operating and maintaining production infrastructure environments
• Deep expertise with Kubernetes orchestration
• Working knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or other public cloud providers
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD) and CI/CD pipelines
• Proficiency in software development using Go or Python
• Ability to translate ambiguous requirements into structured, actionable engineering tasks
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Nice to have

• Experience with large-scale block storage (Persistent Disk, Hyperdisk, Ceph, SAN, or equivalent)
• Experience driving large-scale migrations or deprecations that required buy-in from teams outside your reporting line
• Experience in a consulting-adjacent engineering role
• Familiarity with workflow orchestration (e.g. Temporal), batch and job-execution systems, or large-scale data processing pipelines
• Experience defining and measuring platform adoption

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

Before you apply

• Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis
• This posting may be removed earlier than projected if a suitable pool of applications has been received

About the company

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