About the role

Site Reliability Engineer responsible for building and deploying satellite operations at Planet. Collaborating with teams to design and implement reliable systems for cloud and on-premises environments.

Responsibilities

Build and deploy computing services and infrastructure in customer environments for a next-generation satellite operations and image processing end-to-end platform
Operate in a high-impact, tight knit team to architect novel systems for air-gapped deployments at scale
Clarify and surface requirements from ambiguous use cases defined by cross-functional stakeholders, including internal users and external customers
Responsible for operations such as deployments, service orchestration, and documentation for cross platform stakeholders
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 to ensure operational excellence

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.