Software Engineer, Platform Operations at Planet

Department: Infrastructure and Operations

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Compensation

CA$103,800 – CA$129,700/yr

Setup: Remote - Canada
Type: Full-time
Level: mid
Posted: Feb 10, 2026

Description

Planet is hiring a full-time Software Engineer in Platform Operations to design, build, and operate core infrastructure for its engineering teams. The role focuses on Infrastructure-as-Code, Kubernetes, cloud services, observability, CI/CD, GitOps, and developer experience, and is remote in the United States with an option to work from a nearby office three days per week. The posting lists a Canada base salary range of $103,800–$129,700 CAD and requires at least four years of relevant platform, systems administration, DevOps, or SRE experience.

Required Skills

Infrastructure-as-Code
Kubernetes
Google Cloud Platform
Amazon Web Services
CI/CD
GitOps
Grafana
Go
Python
Linux

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: 4+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, System Administration, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering
Experience with CI/CD, configuration management, and GitOps
Experience building Go and Python services with Git, Docker, and CI/CD
Experience building cloud-based services with AWS or GCP
Experience managing or developing core platform systems or open-source infrastructure
Experience maintaining highly available infrastructure at large scale or across multiple clouds
Experience with networking and network architectures for platform infrastructure
Experience with observability tools and best practices
Preferred Qualifications: Experience with core platform systems or open-source infrastructure
Experience with highly available infrastructure at large scale or across multiple clouds
Experience with networking and network architectures
Experience with observability tools and best practices

About Planet

Planet

geospatial data

Planet provides commercially available satellite imagery, daily Earth data, an archive, and analytics to help governments and companies deliver insights and make decisions. Planet says that in 2009 it set out to image the entire world every day; nine years later, it had released a geospatial platform and achieved daily, global imaging capacity, with almost 200 satellites.

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Planet Labs PBC serves governments and companies.

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