Infrastructure Solutions Engineer

Planet, a leading provider of satellite imagery and geospatial data. As an Infrastructure Solutions Engineer, you will play a crucial role in making Planet's infrastructure easier to use. You will serve as the primary point of contact for cross-engineering infrastructure requests, execute complex workload and storage migrations, drive scoped technical deliverables, develop infrastructure tooling, create technical documentation, and instrument observability dashboards. This is a unique opportunity to work in a multi-disciplinary team and make a significant impact on the company's infrastructure capabilities.

Serve as the primary point of contact for cross-engineering infrastructure requests, resolving immediate blockers and triaging complex issues to core platform owners.

Responsibilities

• Execute complex workload and storage migrations across cloud environments, creating proof-of-concepts, configuration ports, and repeatable migration playbooks.
• Drive scoped technical deliverables within team engagements, collaborating with capability owners and internal partners to complete infrastructure objectives.
• Experience deploying, managing, and troubleshooting workloads on Kubernetes in production environments
• Ability to drive cross-functional projects to completion and communicate technical updates across team boundaries

Requirements

• Experience operating within public cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field

• 4+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, System Administration, Site Reliability Engineering, or a related infrastructure discipline
• Experience using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Crossplane) and GitOps tooling (Helm, ArgoCD) alongside CI/CD pipelines (GitLab)

Preferred

• Proficiency in software development using Go or Python for automation and tooling
• Familiarity with workflow orchestration frameworks (e.g., Temporal) or large-scale batch data processing pipelines
• Experience in a developer enablement, platform support, or internal tooling role serving software engineers
• Experience with large-scale block storage technologies (e.g., GCP Persistent Disk, Hyperdisk, Ceph)
• Exposure to enterprise observability stack configuration and telemetry practices

Pay

USD 127,000 - 180,600

If this job intrigues you, but you’re thinking you might not have all the qualifications, please... do apply! At Planet, we are looking for well-rounded people from around the world who can contribute to more ways than just what is listed in this job description