Senior Software Engineer, DevOps

📋 Description

• • Senior Software Engineer, DevOps role focused on ensuring fast, secure, and reliable releases for the Global Monitoring Service (GMS) App Team at Planet Labs PBC, a company that designs, builds, and operates the world’s largest constellation of imaging satellites to deliver data for commercial, environmental, and humanitarian use.
• • Day-to-day responsibilities include owning the container-based application lifecycle and bi-weekly releases, managing CI/CD pipelines, deploying and maintaining applications on customer-isolated Kubernetes clusters with stateful workloads and persistent storage, ensuring high availability and performance to meet SLAs through proactive monitoring and 24x7 on-call participation, rapidly debugging complex issues, managing Terraform deployments for data pipelines, and owning authentication for GMS resources while providing full-stack technical expertise to customer-facing teams.
• • Planet Labs is a global space and data company with a people-centric culture, employees working remotely worldwide and from offices in San Francisco, Washington DC, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, and The Netherlands, committed to innovation, collaboration, and preparing for growth while putting team members first.
• • In this role, you will deepen your expertise in cloud-native DevOps, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, and secure deployments in defense and intelligence environments, gain experience with architectural decision-making via ADRs, contribute to mission-critical systems used by global authorities, and grow as a technical leader owning end-to-end deployment lifecycle with high autonomy and impact.