4 hours ago
Remote, Germany +2 moreSenior
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end technical engagements with engineering teams to diagnose, unblock, and resolve infrastructure challenges.
- 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 infrastructure offerings.
- Build reusable libraries, Terraform modules, and Helm charts for recurring technical patterns.
- Implement instrumentation and attribution tooling for infrastructure cost, usage, and adoption visibility.
- Synthesize engineering feedback and recurring pain points to influence the infrastructure roadmap.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering, including leading 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 with Kubernetes orchestration, including workload optimization and operations.
- Working knowledge of Google Cloud Platform or other public cloud providers, including compute, storage, quota, and capacity modes.
- Experience with Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Proficiency in software development using Go or Python.
- Ability to translate ambiguous requirements into structured engineering tasks and communicate effectively through documentation and cross-functional collaboration.
- Preferred experience with large-scale block storage such as Persistent Disk, Hyperdisk, Ceph, or SAN; large-scale migrations or deprecations; consulting-adjacent engineering; workflow orchestration such as Temporal; batch or job-execution systems; large-scale data processing pipelines; or platform-adoption measurement.
Benefits
- 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 volunteering paid time off.
- Full-time remote position based in Germany, the Netherlands, or Slovenia; employees near a Planet office are expected to work there three days per week.
Tech Stack
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DevOpsSolutions Engineering