Senior Software Engineer

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>Welcome to Planet. We believe in using space to help life on Earth.</strong></p> <p>Planet designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites in history. This constellation delivers an unprecedented dataset of empirical information via a revolutionary cloud-based platform to authoritative figures in commercial, environmental, and humanitarian sectors. We are both a space company and data company all rolled into one.</p> <p>Customers and users across the globe use Planet's data to develop new technologies, drive revenue, power research, and solve our world’s toughest obstacles.</p> <p>As we control every component of hardware design, manufacturing, data processing, and software engineering, our office is a truly inspiring mix of experts from a variety of domains.</p> <p>We have a people-centric approach toward culture and community and we strive to iterate in a way that puts our team members first and prepares our company for growth. Join Planet and be a part of our mission to change the way people see the world.</p> <p>Planet is a global company with employees working remotely world wide and joining us from offices in San Francisco, Washington DC, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, and The Netherlands.</p></div><p><strong>About the Role:</strong></p> <p>The Global Monitoring Service (GMS) App Team is hiring for a Senior Software Engineer to ensure fast, secure, and reliable releases through the team’s DevOps capabilities. The GMS App Team is responsible for providing a customized application for Defense Intelligence customers from around the world. This application provides daily, near-real time monitoring and analytic insights on customer-defined sites built atop Planet’s satellite data.</p> <p>This is a full-time, remote position based in the United States. If located near an office, you are expected to work from that office 3 days per week.</p> <p><strong>Impact You'll Own:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Own the container-based application lifecycle, bi-weekly releases, and CI/CD pipelines for GMS.</li> <li>Organize and execute migrations as the service evolves.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>Ensure high availability and performance by meeting contractual SLAs through proactive monitoring and alert response, including participation in a 24x7 on-call rotation.</li> <li>Rapidly debug and resolve complex issues surfaced by customers or internal monitoring.</li> <li>Own auth for GMS resources and provide full stack technical expertise to customer-facing teams to fulfill service obligations.</li> <li>Manage terraform deployments for data pipelines.</li> </ul> <p><strong>What You Bring:</strong></p> <ul> <li>6+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on infrastructure or DevOps, specifically deploying and managing containers.</li> <li>Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a similar field.</li> <li>Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and stateful applications, persistent storage, and node pool isolation in Kubernetes.</li> <li>Track record of owning and optimizing CI/CD pipelines and managing infrastructure via Makefiles and manifests.</li> <li>Practical knowledge of secrets management and security best practices within a cloud-native environment.</li> <li>Experience participating in on-call rotations and participating in blameless postmortems.</li> <li>Ability to monitor complex distributed systems with established SLAs and SLOs and a commitment to meeting strict performance SLOs and contractual obligations.</li> <li>A high degree of independence and a sense of ownership over the full deployment lifecycle.</li> <li>Experience deploying in secured customer environments.</li> <li>Willingness to collaborate across multiple tim ... (truncated, view full listing at source)