Infrastructure Solutions Engineer, Kubernetes & GCP (Remote)

Planet runs the largest fleet of Earth-imaging satellites. In this role you join the small Infrastructure Solutions team and make Planet's cloud platform easier for its engineering teams to use: you are often the first person a team calls when an infrastructure problem is in their way, and you work beside a senior engineer on the harder cases.

Key responsibilities

• Act as the first contact for infrastructure requests from other engineering teams, clear blockers and pass complex issues to the platform owners
• Run workload and storage migrations between cloud environments, with proofs of concept and repeatable playbooks
• Build tooling in Go and Python: Terraform modules, Helm charts, CLIs and client libraries
• Write documentation, runbooks and worked examples that cut repeat support questions
• Build dashboards that show teams their infrastructure cost, capacity and usage

Requirements

• 4+ years in platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, system administration or similar
• A bachelor's degree in a relevant field
• Production experience with Kubernetes
• Public cloud experience, ideally Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Crossplane), GitOps (Helm, ArgoCD) and CI/CD (GitLab)
• Go or Python for automation and tooling

Nice to have

• Developer enablement or internal tooling experience
• Large-scale block storage (GCP Persistent Disk, Hyperdisk, Ceph)
• Workflow orchestration such as Temporal, or large batch data pipelines

Remote details

• Full-time, remote, for people based in the United States
• If you live near a Planet office, you work from it 3 days a week

Salary and benefits

US base salary $127,000 to $180,600 a year, depending on location (US national range from $127,000; San Francisco up to $180,600), plus possible bonus and equity. Benefits include medical, dental and vision cover, 16 weeks of paid parental leave, home office and internet reimbursement, and tuition support.

How to apply

Applications are reviewed as they arrive and the posting can close early, so apply soon. Apply on the company's own site.