Platform Engineer, Kubernetes, GCP & Terraform (Remote US)

Planet's Platform Operations team builds and runs the core infrastructure its engineering teams use to deploy and scale their services. You help run Planet's internal developer platform with a focus on security, scale and reliability, and you take part in a move from old tooling to new.

Key responsibilities

• Design and build Infrastructure as Code for Planet's services
• Work on platform modernisation, including migrating off legacy tooling
• Run cloud infrastructure, especially the fleet of Kubernetes (GKE) clusters
• Improve observability with Grafana and set Service Level Objectives
• Improve core systems such as the public API gateway
• Work with engineering teams to make the platform easier to use

Requirements

• 4+ years in platform engineering, DevOps, SRE or system administration
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes and Linux
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• CI/CD (GitLab, ArgoCD), Terraform or Crossplane, and GitOps
• Building services in Go or Python with Git and Docker

Nice to have

• Core platform or open-source infrastructure projects
• Highly available infrastructure at large scale or across clouds
• Networking for platform infrastructure

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 $127,000 to $158,700), 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.