Who you are

- 6+ years of experience building services that leverage cloud-native infrastructure and tooling

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or similar

- Experience deploying and maintaining bare-metal and cloud kubernetes through tools such as Talos, RKE2, Proxmox, or k3s

- Proficiency with Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Kustomize, and/or similar IaC / GitOps tooling

- Experience with CI/CD tooling, such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Argo CD, or CircleCI

- 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

- 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

- If this job intrigues you, but you’re thinking you might not have all the qualifications, please... do apply!

What the job involves

- 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

- 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

- Clarify and surface 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

The application process

- Application Deadline: November 11, 2026 by 11:59p / 23:59 CET (Central European Time)

Benefits

- Comprehensive health plan

- Wellness program and massages

- Adaptable time off

- Recognition programs

- Commuter benefits

- Learning and tuition reimbursement

- Parental leave

- Offsites and happy hours

- Volunteering benefits

📌 Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Canada)
🏢 Planet
📍 Canada