Senior Software Engineer, DevOps

Planet is a company that designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites in history. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to ensure fast, secure, and reliable releases through the team’s DevOps capabilities, managing deployments and optimizing CI/CD pipelines for their Global Monitoring Service.

Responsibilities:

• Own the container-based application lifecycle, bi-weekly releases, and CI/CD pipelines for GMS
• Organize and execute migrations as the service evolves
• Manage deployments on customer-isolated Kubernetes clusters running stateful applications, persistent storage, and infrastructure-as-code (manifests/Makefiles), closely partnering with infrastructure teams to ensure operational and performance needs are met
• Ensure high availability and performance by meeting contractual SLAs through proactive monitoring and alert response, including participation in a 24x7 on-call rotation
• Rapidly debug and resolve complex issues surfaced by customers or internal monitoring
• Own auth for GMS resources and provide full stack technical expertise to customer-facing teams to fulfill service obligations
• Manage terraform deployments for data pipelines

Requirements:

• 6+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on infrastructure or DevOps, specifically deploying and managing containers
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a similar field
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and stateful applications, persistent storage, and node pool isolation in Kubernetes
• Track record of owning and optimizing CI/CD pipelines and managing infrastructure via Makefiles and manifests
• Practical knowledge of secrets management and security best practices within a cloud-native environment
• Experience participating in on-call rotations and participating in blameless postmortems
• Ability to monitor complex distributed systems with established SLAs and SLOs and a commitment to meeting strict performance SLOs and contractual obligations
• A high degree of independence and a sense of ownership over the full deployment lifecycle
• Experience deploying in secured customer environments
• Willingness to collaborate across multiple time zones and travel quarterly for team alignment
• Evolve systems and services intentionally and responsibly using Architectural Decision Records among stakeholders
• Experience managing data pipelines, particularly with dbt
• Experience working with Defense & Intelligence customers
• Operational experiences with SQL and noSQL data stores
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform and Grafana
• Experience authoring Kubernetes custom resources (CRDs)
• Experience contributing to open source projects
• Involvement with Geospatial software community
• Familiarity with front end development practices
• Background in Professional Services, customer-facing deployment, and solutions optimization