Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Planet is a global company that designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites in history. They are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to guide and mentor high-performing engineering teams, focusing on delivering successful products for Defense & Intelligence customers and ensuring efficient team processes.

Responsibilities

• Guide your team of software engineers and data scientists to deliver successful products for the Global Monitoring Service
• Mentor, coach and unblock your team members, helping them succeed and grow their careers
• Ensure efficient shipping of product improvements and features
• Partner with your product management counterpart to define strategy and take tactical decisions
• Refine and implement team processes, including for task planning, code reviews and on-call rotations
• Establish sound engineering practices to build software and design training & inference pipelines
• Collaborate across our engineering organization and other cross functional teams to align efforts, particularly concerning model maintenance, deployment pipelines, and new compute infrastructure needs

Skills

• 6+ years of related experience
• 4+ years of experience as a manager, with ability to build, retain, and grow diverse, geographically dispersed teams
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field
• Excellent interpersonal skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to explain complex technical issues accurately to technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience in delivering data-intensive software products at scale
• Solid understanding of fundamentals in software engineering, statistics and machine learning
• Success in establishing and evolving operational practices in a software engineering organization
• Experience with change management, managing tech debt, and analyzing tradeoffs in solution builds
• Experience with distributed cloud computing
• Experience building products using sensor or geospatial data
• Experience working with satellite or airborne earth observations data
• Interest in defense, intelligence or spatial imagery

Benefits

• 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
• Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
• Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
• Equity
• Commuter Benefits (if local to an office)
• Volunteering Paid Time Off

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