Senior Software Engineer - DevOps Solutions for Defense & Intelligence

About the Role

Join Planet as a Senior Software Engineer - DevOps Solutions and be part of a mission to change the way people see the world. This is a full-time, remote position where you'll work with a diverse team dedicated to leveraging space technology for humanitarian efforts. You will play a crucial role in ensuring fast, secure, and reliable releases through our DevOps capabilities.

What You'll Do

• Own the container-based application lifecycle and manage bi-weekly releases for the Global Monitoring Service (GMS) application.
• Organize and execute migrations as the service evolves, ensuring seamless transitions.
• Manage deployments on customer-isolated Kubernetes clusters, focusing on stateful applications and infrastructure-as-code.
• Ensure high availability and performance by meeting contractual SLAs through proactive monitoring and alert response.
• Rapidly debug and resolve complex issues surfaced by customers or internal monitoring.
• Provide full-stack technical expertise to customer-facing teams to fulfill service obligations.
• Manage Terraform deployments for data pipelines, ensuring efficient data processing.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on infrastructure or DevOps.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and managing stateful applications.
• Proven track record of optimizing CI/CD pipelines and managing infrastructure via Makefiles and manifests.
• Practical knowledge of secrets management and security best practices in cloud-native environments.
• Experience participating in on-call rotations and conducting blameless postmortems.
• Ability to monitor complex distributed systems with established SLAs and SLOs.
• Willingness to collaborate across multiple time zones and travel quarterly for team alignment.

Nice to Have

• Experience working with Defense & Intelligence customers.
• Operational experience with SQL and NoSQL data stores.
• Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform and Grafana.
• Experience authoring Kubernetes custom resources (CRDs).
• Involvement with the Geospatial software community.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary ranging from $120,000 to $150,000 per year.
• Equity options available.
• Paid time off including vacation, holidays, and company-wide days off.
• Employee Wellness Program and Home Office Reimbursement.
• Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement.
• Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning.
• Volunteering Paid Time Off.