4 hours ago
Remote, NetherlandsSenior
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end technical engagements to diagnose, unblock, and resolve complex infrastructure challenges for engineering teams.
- Develop reference implementations, tooling, and guidance for migrations away from deprecated systems.
- Serve as the primary technical contact for teams onboarding to Planet’s core infrastructure.
- Consolidate disparate solutions into standardized, supported paved-road infrastructure offerings.
- Build reusable libraries, Terraform modules, and Helm charts for recurring technical patterns.
- Implement observability, instrumentation, and attribution tooling for infrastructure cost, usage, and adoption.
- Synthesize engineering feedback and recurring pain points to influence the broader infrastructure roadmap.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering, including leadership of at least one cross-team project or migration.
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
- Experience in technical enablement, developer experience, or solutions architecture focused on internal developer productivity.
- Hands-on experience operating and maintaining production infrastructure environments.
- Deep expertise operating and optimizing workloads on Kubernetes.
- Working knowledge of Google Cloud Platform or other public cloud providers, including compute, storage, quota, and capacity modes.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Helm, and ArgoCD, as well as CI/CD pipelines.
- Proficiency in software development with Go or Python.
- Ability to translate ambiguous requirements into structured engineering tasks and communicate effectively through technical documentation and cross-functional collaboration.
- Experience with fleet-scale block storage such as Persistent Disk, Hyperdisk, Ceph, or SAN is a preferred qualification.
- Experience driving large-scale migrations or deprecations requiring buy-in from teams outside the reporting line is preferred.
- Experience in solutions architecture, professional services, or technical account engineering applied to an internal platform is preferred.
- Familiarity with Temporal, batch and job-execution systems, or large-scale data processing pipelines is preferred.
- Experience defining and measuring platform adoption through developer-productivity instrumentation, NPS, or internal market share is preferred.
Benefits
- Full-time remote position based in Germany, the Netherlands, or Slovenia.
- Expected to work from a Planet office three days per week if located near one.
- Paid time off including vacation, holidays, and company-wide days off.
- Employee Wellness Program.
- Home office reimbursement.
- Monthly phone and internet reimbursement.
- Tuition reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning.
- Equity and potential discretionary bonuses.
- Volunteering paid time off.