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About the role
Planet's Direct Access Service Infrastructure team builds a new platform that lets customers run satellite imaging operations on their own premises or cloud. As a Site Reliability Engineer you build, deploy and run the compute software behind it, often in air-gapped environments.
Key responsibilities
- Build and deploy compute services in customer environments
- Design systems for air-gapped deployments at scale
- Turn unclear needs into clear requirements
- Run deployments, service orchestration and documentation
- Improve reliability by studying failure modes and writing tests; join on-call
Requirements
- 4+ years building services on cloud-native infrastructure
- A degree in computer science or similar
- Bare-metal and cloud Kubernetes (Talos, RKE2, Proxmox or k3s)
- Terraform, Ansible, Helm or similar, plus CI/CD tools
- Knowledge of on-prem hardware and networking
Location and schedule
- Hybrid: you work from the San Francisco office 3 days a week
Salary and benefits
US base salary $144,500 to $180,600 a year, plus possible bonus and equity. Benefits include medical, dental and vision cover, 16 weeks of paid parental leave, and tuition support.
How to apply
Apply on the company's own site.

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