Senior Site Reliability Engineer Verified today
About the Role
Planet is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with focus on Identity and Access Management (IAM) to join the Corporate Engineering team. You will own the continuous operation, development and enhancement of Planet's corporate infrastructure and applications, acting as the technical authority for our enterprise identity ecosystem.
This is a full-time, hybrid role requiring 3 days per week in our Berlin, Haarlem or Ljubljana office.
Impact You'll Own
- Ensure operation of Planet's internal IT systems, specifically architecting and maintaining identity providers (Okta, Auth0, Keycloak)
- Engineer automated zero-day Joiner, Mover, and Leaver (JML) workflows directly from HRIS systems (e.g. HiBob)
- Use Python or Go to automate repetitive tasks, build custom provisioning connectors for legacy applications, and enforce identity data minimization
- Identify and reduce operational toil through automation, making systems self-healing and predictable
- Leverage APIs, Terraform, Ansible, or SaltStack to manage configurations as code, moving away from manual UI/CLI changes
- Participate in on-call rotation and drive continuous improvement of incident response, root cause analysis, and post-mortem processes for complex authentication failures
- Collaborate with Security and IT teams to embed reliability, scalability, and security best practices, ensuring identity architecture complies with GDPR and Zero Trust principles
What You Bring
- 6+ years experience in infrastructure development and/or operations, with dedicated focus on Identity and Access Management
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent professional experience
- Expertise with a scripting language like Python
- Track record working with large web applications or computer clusters and managing complex identity architectures (Okta, Auth0, Keycloak)
- Experience integrating HR Information Systems with identity directories and handling complex edge cases (re-hires, cross-border transfers)
- Solid understanding of network principles and modern identity protocols (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, SCIM)
- Practical understanding of PKI, certificate lifecycles (S/MIME, X.509), and managing legacy directories like Active Directory
What Makes You Stand Out
- Operational experience deploying and maintaining databases
- Production experience with Docker, ECS or Linux containers
- Awareness of systems security best practices and defensive programming
- Experience with version control e.g. Git
- Experience deploying and maintaining virtual machines e.g. KVM, ProxMox
- Experience with CI/CD processes and tools e.g. Jenkins, GitLab
- Experience with Access Control systems e.g. Avigilon, Verkada or dormakaba
- Experience with Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and deployment automation, renewal, and revocation of personal S/MIME certificates
Compensation and Benefits
Expected starting gross salary range: EUR 75,000 to EUR 93,700. Individual placement within this range is determined objectively based on gender-neutral criteria such as skills, qualifications, and professional experience. This position may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses and/or equity.
Benefits include paid time off, Employee Wellness Program, home office reimbursement, monthly phone and internet reimbursement, tuition reimbursement and LinkedIn Learning access, equity, and volunteering paid time off. Benefits depend on employment type and geographical location.
Export Control
Planet Labs Germany GmbH is authorized to receive U.S. export-controlled information under an export license. This position requires access to export-controlled information. Employment is contingent upon the candidate's ability to access all applicable export-controlled information without additional export licensing.