Hybrid Senior Software Engineer

at Planet

• Job title: Senior Software Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $142,800 - $178,500 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud, Distributed Systems, Kubernetes, Node.js, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, United States

About the role

• Senior Software Engineer for Planet's Global Monitoring Service team. Ensuring reliable releases and managing DevOps infrastructure for Defense & Intelligence customers.

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.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution
• Generous Paid Time Off in addition to holidays and company-wide days off
• 16 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave
• Wellness Program and Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Home Office Reimbursement
• Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
• Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
• Equity
• Commuter Benefits (if local to an office)
• Volunteering Paid Time Off