Senior Software Engineer

Planet

9h•Remote

About The Position

Planet designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites in history. This constellation delivers an unprecedented dataset of empirical information via a revolutionary cloud-based platform to authoritative figures in commercial, environmental, and humanitarian sectors. We are both a space company and data company rolled into one. In this role, you will join Planet's Direct Access Service Infrastructure team, directly contributing to our next-generation Constellation as a Service platform. This platform represents a major new offering to our customers that goes beyond traditional cloud-based platforms and supports on-premises deployments. You will be responsible for building, deploying, and operating critical compute software that supports end-to-end imaging operations within customer on-premises and/or cloud environments. You will use your understanding of internal compute requirements as well as customers' environmental-specific constraints to help design, implement, and support a robust system for reproducible deployments across operating environments, to guarantee the reliability, scalability, and availability of our services. To do this, you will partner closely with cross-functional engineering teams to enable and empower the integration of software solutions and the troubleshooting of distributed systems. This is a full-time, remote position based in the United States. If located near an office, you are expected to work from that office 3 days per week.

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 IaC / GitOps tooling
Experience successfully building, releasing, and supporting highly available, consistently performant services
Knowledge of hardware and network level implications of on-prem compute
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 through collaboration with cross-functional engineering teams
Experience working with Jira for task management and progress tracking

Nice To Haves

Experience with CUDA-based GPU programs
Security expertise in sensitive environments, including implementing zero-trust architectures, hardening Kubernetes clusters, conducting security audits, and deploying workloads in air-gapped environments

Responsibilities

Build and deploy computing services and infrastructure in customer environments for a next-generation satellite operations and image processing end-to-end platform
Operate in a high-impact, tight knit team to architect novel systems for air-gapped deployments at scale
Clarifying and surfacing requirements from ambiguous use cases defined by cross-functional stakeholders, including internal users and external customers
Responsible for operations such as deployments, service orchestration, and documentation for cross platform stakeholders
Scale architecture while ensuring availability of services
Improve reliability and scalability by resolving edge cases, studying failure modes, and writing tests
Participate in on-call rotations to ensure operational excellence