About the role

Role Overview

Planet is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer for the Direct Access Service Infrastructure team. You will build, deploy, and operate critical compute software that supports end-to-end imaging operations in customer environments (on-premises and/or cloud), helping ensure reliability, scalability, and availability.

Responsibilities

Build and deploy computing services and infrastructure for a next-generation satellite operations and image processing platform
Operate services, including deployments, service orchestration, and documentation across stakeholders and environments
Design robust, reproducible deployments by combining internal compute needs with customer environmental constraints
Architect and support air-gapped deployments at scale
Partner with cross-functional teams to integrate solutions and troubleshoot distributed systems
Improve reliability and scalability by resolving edge cases, analyzing failure modes, and writing tests
Participate in on-call rotations to maintain operational excellence
Help clarify requirements from ambiguous use cases with internal and external stakeholders

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or similar)
10+ years experience building services using cloud-native infrastructure and tooling
Experience deploying and maintaining bare-metal and cloud Kubernetes using tools such as Talos, RKE2, Proxmox, or k3s
Proficient with Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Kustomize, and/or similar IaC/GitOps tooling

Nice-to-haves

Experience delivering and supporting highly available and consistently performant services

About Planet

Planet is a space and data company that designs, builds, and operates a large constellation of imaging satellites. It delivers an unprecedented stream of empirical data through a cloud-based platform used by commercial, environmental, and humanitarian customers worldwide.