Job Description
The role involves building, deploying, and operating critical compute software for satellite imaging operations within customer environments, ensuring system reliability, scalability, and availability across cloud and on-premises platforms as part of Planet's next-generation Constellation as a Service platform.
Key Responsibilities
- Build, deploy, and operate compute software supporting end-to-end imaging operations in customer environments
- Design, implement, and support a robust system for reproducible deployments across various operating environments
- Partner with cross-functional teams to enable software integration and troubleshoot distributed systems
- Manage deployments, service orchestration, and documentation for cross-platform stakeholders
- Scale architecture to ensure service availability and reliability
- Resolve edge cases, study failure modes, and write tests to improve system reliability and scalability
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar
- 10 years of experience building services that leverage cloud-native infrastructure and tooling
- Experience deploying and maintaining bare-metal and cloud Kubernetes through tools such as Talos, RKE2, Proxmox, or k3s
- Proficient with Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Kustomize, and or similar Infrastructure as Code (IaC) GitOps tooling
- Experience successfully building, releasing, and supporting highly available, consistently performant services
- Knowledge of hardware and network level implications of on-premise compute environments
- Experience with platform optimization, particularly resource optimization, management, and cluster tuning in a constrained environment
- Ability to observe and troubleshoot distributed systems with tools such as Alloy, Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry
- Advanced skills in Python, Bash, and other tooling as appropriate to build services and meet product goals
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional engineering teams
- Experience working with Jira for task management and progress tracking
- Application for this position requires access to export-controlled information, and the candidate must be able to access all applicable export-controlled information without additional export licensing being required by the Bureau of Industry and Security and/or the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls
Benefits & Perks
Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution
Generous Paid Time Off in addition to holidays and company-wide days off
16 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave
Wellness Program and Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Home Office Reimbursement
Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
Equity
Commuter Benefits if local to an office
Discretionary short-term and long-term incentives bonus and equity
Salary range based on location and experience (e.g., $172,200 - $215,200 in New York City, $182,900 - $228,600 in San Francisco, $160,600 - $200,800 US national)
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