or apply directly on Planet's site. We never take the application ourselves.
Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 21 days Planet's roles stay open a median of 34 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Planet's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Planet
- high 56 stale, 12 reposted of 127 open
- Hiring momentum
- 156 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Planet's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Planet.
About this role
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Planet, you will join the Direct Access Service Infrastructure team to build and operate a next-generation Constellation as a Service platform. Your responsibilities will include deploying and maintaining compute software for imaging operations, ensuring system reliability and scalability, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to address customer-specific requirements. You will also participate in on-call rotations and improve system reliability by analyzing failure modes and writing tests.
- benefits
- 5/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Planet as an employer.
What you need
- 6+ years of experience building services that leverage cloud-native infrastructure and tooling
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or similar
- Experience deploying and maintaining bare-metal and cloud Kubernetes through tools such as Talos, RKE2, Proxmox, or k3s
- Proficiency with Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Kustomize, and/or similar IaC / GitOps tooling
- Experience with CI/CD tooling, such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Argo CD, or CircleCI
- Experience successfully building, releasing, and supporting highly available, consistently performant services
Nice to have
- Experience with CUDA-based GPU programs
- Security expertise in sensitive environments, including implementing zero-trust architectures, hardening Kubernetes clusters, conducting security audits, and deploying workloads in air-gapped environments
What you get
- 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
Worth weighing
- No salary listed in the posting, but a range is provided for US and Canada locations during the hiring process.
- The role involves on-call rotations which may affect work-life balance.
- The position requires access to export-controlled information, which may limit candidate eligibility.
Summarised from Planet's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Planet on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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