Senior Site Reliability Engineer

About the Role

We are searching for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join the Corporate Engineering team! As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer together with other engineers you will be responsible for the continuous operation, further development and enhancement of Planet’s corporate infrastructure and applications. This is a full-time, hybrid role which will require you to work from our Berlin office 3 days per week.

Impact You’ll Own

• Help to ensure the operation of Planet’s internal IT systems
• Improve existing and create new solutions
• Drive the infrastructure setup and maintenance of our new location
• Scripting & Tooling: Use Python or Go to automate repetitive network tasks, configuration management, and data collection.
• Identify and reduce operational toil through automation, making our systems self-healing and predictable
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Leverage Terraform, Ansible, or SaltStack to manage network configurations as code, moving away from manual CLI changes
• Architect, deploy, and maintain high-availability environments using Juniper (Junos), Arista (EOS), and HP Aruba switching/routing platforms
• Participate in an on-call rotation and drive the continuous improvement of incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and post-mortem processes
• Collaborate closely with Security and other IT teams to embed reliability, scalability, and security best practices from the ground up

What You Bring

• 6+ years experience in infrastructure development and/or operations
• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or a related field
• Expertise with a scripting language like Python
• Track record of working with large web applications or computer clusters
• Hands-on experience with Linux deployment and administration
• Advanced experience using configuration management tools (i.e. Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Saltstack) in a production environment (we use Salt and Terraform)
• Solid understanding of Network principles and operations
• Advanced experience with LAN/WAN technologies, protocols and best practices, e. g. BGP

What Makes You Stand Out

• Operational experience in deploying and maintaining databases
• Experience using Docker, ECS or Linux Containers in a production environment
• Awareness of best practices about systems security and defensive programming
• Experience with version control e.g. Git
• Experience with programming and scripting languages e.g. Python, Shell
• Experience in deploying and maintaining virtual machines e.g. KVM, ProxMox
• Experience in software development using CI/CD processes and tools e.g. Jenkins, GitLab
• German language skills

Benefits While Working at Planet

These offerings are dependent on employment type and geographical location, based upon applicable law or company policy.

• Paid time off including vacation, holidays and company-wide days off
• Employee Wellness Program
• Home Office Reimbursement
• Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
• Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
• Equity
• Volunteering
• Paid Time Off