Build and operate Planet’s large-scale storage infrastructure, including object storage, metadata indexing, Elasticsearch search, event notification, and disaster recovery. Develop highly available backend services and APIs, monitor and tune production systems, respond to incidents, and improve performance. Advise engineers, lead technical projects, contribute to architectural roadmaps, participate in design reviews, and support engineering practices and documentation.

Build, deploy, and operate highly available compute infrastructure for satellite operations and image processing across customer cloud and on-premises environments. Architect air-gapped deployments, manage Kubernetes orchestration, improve reliability and scalability, troubleshoot distributed systems, optimize constrained clusters, document operations, and participate in on-call rotations. Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to clarify requirements and deliver reproducible, consistently performant services.

The Software Engineer in Platform Operations will design and implement core Infrastructure-as-Code solutions, manage cloud infrastructure services, and collaborate with software teams to enhance developer experience.