Planet provides daily satellite imagery and multidimensional Earth insights through a platform designed to help organizations monitor geographically dispersed locations, analyze historical change, and turn large-scale observation data into practical decisions. Its Earth observation products support work across aerospace, agriculture, energy, infrastructure, and government, giving teams a clearer view of how places and environments evolve over time.
Infrastructure Solutions Engineer
Help engineering teams adopt Planet’s cloud-based satellite imagery platform through infrastructure tooling, cloud migrations, and observability. The role also handles infrastructure support and develops reusable guidance for engineering teams.
United States$127,000 – $158,700 / year
HybridFull-timeMiddleSeniorEnglish RequiredInfrastructure EngineerDescription
- Act as the main contact for infrastructure requests across engineering, clear immediate blockers, and route complex issues to platform owners.
- Migrate workloads and storage between cloud environments, building proofs of concept, porting configurations, and creating reusable playbooks.
- Deliver defined technical work within team engagements in collaboration with capability owners and internal partners.
- Build infrastructure tools, Terraform modules, Helm charts, command-line interfaces, and client libraries in Go and Python to support consistent platform adoption.
- Write technical documentation, runbooks, and practical examples to reduce repeat engineering support requests.
- Develop observability dashboards and reporting tools that show engineering teams infrastructure costs, capacity, and usage.
- Support engineering teams and platform adoption to make Planet’s infrastructure easier to use.
Requirements
- At least four years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, system administration, site reliability engineering, or a related infrastructure discipline.
- A bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
- Experience deploying, operating, and troubleshooting Kubernetes workloads in production.
- Experience working with public cloud platforms; Google Cloud Platform is preferred.
- Experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform or Crossplane, GitOps tools such as Helm or ArgoCD, and CI/CD pipelines such as GitLab.
- Proficiency in Go or Python for software development, automation, and tooling.
- Ability to complete cross-functional projects and communicate technical updates across team boundaries.
- Experience in developer enablement, platform support, or internal tooling for software engineers is a plus.
- Experience with large-scale block storage such as GCP Persistent Disk, Hyperdisk, or Ceph is a plus.
- Familiarity with workflow orchestration frameworks such as Temporal or large-scale batch data processing pipelines is a plus.
- Exposure to enterprise observability stack configuration and telemetry practices is a plus.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision plans.
- Health Savings Account with a company contribution.
- Paid time off, holidays, and company-wide days off.
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
- Wellness program and Employee Assistance Program.
- Home office reimbursement.
- Monthly phone and internet reimbursement.
- Tuition reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning.
- Equity.
- Commuter benefits for employees located near an office.
- Paid time off for volunteering.
- Discretionary short- and long-term incentives, which may include bonuses and equity.