Senior Site Reliability Engineer Verified today
About the Role
Join Planet's Direct Access Service Infrastructure team to build, deploy, and operate critical compute software supporting end-to-end imaging operations. You will design and implement systems for reproducible deployments across on-premises and cloud customer environments, ensuring reliability, scalability, and availability of services.
What You Will Own
- Build and deploy computing services and infrastructure in customer environments for next-generation satellite operations and image processing
- Architect novel systems for air-gapped deployments at scale in a high-impact team
- Clarify requirements from cross-functional stakeholders, including internal users and external customers
- Manage deployments, service orchestration, and documentation for platform stakeholders
- Scale architecture while ensuring service availability
- Improve reliability and scalability by resolving edge cases, studying failure modes, and writing tests
- Participate in on-call rotations to ensure operational excellence
What You Bring
- 6+ years building services with cloud-native infrastructure and tooling
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- Experience deploying and maintaining bare-metal and cloud Kubernetes (Talos, RKE2, Proxmox, k3s)
- Proficiency with Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Kustomize, or similar IaC/GitOps tooling
- Experience with CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Argo CD, CircleCI)
- Track record building, releasing, and supporting highly available, performant services
- Knowledge of hardware and network implications of on-premises compute
- Platform optimization experience, particularly resource optimization and cluster tuning in constrained environments
- Ability to observe and troubleshoot distributed systems (Alloy, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
- Advanced skills in Python, Bash, and other languages as needed
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Experience with Jira for task management
What Makes You Stand Out
- Experience with CUDA-based GPU programs
- Security expertise in sensitive environments: zero-trust architectures, Kubernetes hardening, security audits, air-gapped workload deployment
Employment Details
Full-time, remote position based in the United States or Canada. If located near an office, you are expected to work from that office 3 days per week.
Export Control
This position requires access to export-controlled information. Employment is contingent upon your ability to access export-controlled information without additional licensing from the Bureau of Industry and Security or Directorate of Defense Trade Controls.
Compensation
US base salary range:
- San Francisco: $162,600-$203,200 USD
- New York City + California: $153,000-$191,300 USD
- US National: $142,800-$178,500 USD
- Canada: $116,700-$145,900 CAD
This role may be eligible for discretionary short-term and long-term incentives (bonus and equity). Final salary determined by experience, skills, and location.
Benefits
- Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
- Health Savings Account (HSA) with 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 LinkedIn Learning access
- Equity
- Commuter Benefits (if local to an office)
- Volunteering Paid Time Off
Benefits offerings are dependent on employment type and geographical location, based on applicable law or company policy.