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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Planet
Berlin, Germany
Full Time
Posted February 18, 2026
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Job Description

The role involves maintaining and enhancing Planet's corporate infrastructure and applications, focusing on automation, high-availability environments, and network operations to ensure reliable internal IT systems and support company growth.

Key Responsibilities

  • Ensure the continuous operation of Planet's internal IT systems
  • Develop and enhance infrastructure and applications
  • Automate network tasks, configuration management, and data collection using scripting languages
  • Manage network configurations as code using IaC tools like Terraform, Ansible, or SaltStack
  • Design, deploy, and maintain high-availability environments with networking hardware
  • Participate in on-call rotation and improve incident response and root cause analysis processes
  • Collaborate with security and IT teams to embed reliability, scalability, and security best practices

Requirements

  • 6 years experience in infrastructure development and or operations
  • Bachelor's Degree in computer science or a related field
  • Expertise with a scripting language like Python
  • Track record of working with large web applications or computer clusters
  • Hands-on experience with Linux deployment and administration
  • Advanced experience using configuration management tools i.e. Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Saltstack in a production environment (specifically Salt and Terraform)
  • Solid understanding of Network principles and operations
  • Advanced experience with LAN WAN technologies, protocols and best practices, e.g. BGP
  • Architect, deploy, and maintain high-availability environments using Juniper Junos, Arista EOS, and HP Aruba switching routing platforms
  • Participate in an on-call rotation and drive the continuous improvement of incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and post-mortem processes
  • Collaborate closely with Security and other IT teams to embed reliability, scalability, and security best practices from the ground up
  • Access to U.S. and German EU export-controlled information, with the ability to do so without additional export licensing being required by German, EU, or U.S. authorities

Benefits & Perks

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
Volunteering Paid Time Off

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