Planet

Site Reliability Engineer

Planet
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Base Salary

$145k - $181k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and deploy computing services and infrastructure in customer environments for satellite operations and image processing.
  • Architect and operate scalable, reproducible, and air-gapped deployments across on-premises and cloud environments.
  • Clarify requirements with internal users, external customers, and cross-functional engineering stakeholders.
  • Manage deployments, service orchestration, documentation, and platform integration.
  • Improve service reliability, scalability, availability, and performance by analyzing failure modes and resolving edge cases.
  • Troubleshoot distributed systems, write tests, and participate in on-call rotations.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience building services that leverage cloud-native infrastructure and tooling.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a similar field.
  • Experience deploying and maintaining bare-metal and cloud Kubernetes using tools such as Talos, RKE2, Proxmox, or k3s.
  • Proficiency with Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Kustomize, or similar infrastructure-as-code and GitOps tooling.
  • Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Argo CD, or CircleCI.
  • Experience building, releasing, and supporting highly available and consistently performant services.
  • Knowledge of hardware and network implications of on-premises computing and experience with resource optimization and cluster tuning.
  • Ability to observe and troubleshoot distributed systems using tools such as Alloy, Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
  • Advanced Python and Bash skills.
  • Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills, including experience using Jira for task management.
  • Preferred experience with CUDA-based GPU programs and security in sensitive environments, including zero-trust architectures, Kubernetes hardening, security audits, and air-gapped workloads.

Benefits

  • Full-time hybrid role requiring work from the San Francisco office 3 days per week.
  • Medical, dental, and vision plans, plus a company-contributed Health Savings Account.
  • Generous paid time off, holidays, company-wide days off, and 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
  • Wellness and Employee Assistance Programs.
  • Home office, phone, and internet reimbursements.
  • Tuition reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning.
  • Equity, commuter benefits for employees local to an office, and paid volunteer time off.

Tech Stack

AnsibleArgo CDBashCircleCIGitLab CI/CDGrafanaHelmJenkinsKubernetesPrometheusPythonTerraform

Categories

DevOpsSite Reliability
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