Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Kubernetes (Remote US/CA)

Join Planet's Direct Access Service Infrastructure team, which builds a new platform that lets customers run Planet's satellite imaging operations in their own data centres or cloud. You build, deploy and run the compute software behind it, often in air-gapped environments.

Key responsibilities

• Build and deploy compute services and infrastructure in customer environments
• Design systems for air-gapped deployments at scale with a small team
• Turn unclear needs from internal teams and customers into clear requirements
• Own deployments, service orchestration and documentation
• Improve reliability by studying failure modes and writing tests
• Take part in the on-call rotation

Requirements

• 6+ years building services on cloud-native infrastructure
• A bachelor's degree in computer science or similar
• Bare-metal and cloud Kubernetes (Talos, RKE2, Proxmox or k3s)
• Terraform, Ansible, Helm or Kustomize, and CI/CD tools such as GitLab CI/CD or Argo CD
• Observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Alloy or OpenTelemetry
• Strong Python and Bash
• Eligible to access US export-controlled information (EAR/ITAR) without an extra licence

Nice to have

• CUDA-based GPU programs
• Security work in sensitive environments: zero trust, hardened Kubernetes, air-gapped deployments

Remote details

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

Salary and benefits

US base salary $142,800 to $203,200 a year depending on location (Canada: CAD 116,700 to 145,900), plus possible bonus and equity. Benefits include medical, dental and vision cover, 16 weeks of paid parental leave and home office reimbursement.

How to apply

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