Hybrid Senior Software Engineering Manager

at Planet

• Job title: Senior Software Engineering Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $160,600 - $200,800 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud
• Location requirements: Hybrid, United States

About the role

• Senior Engineering Manager leading Defense Intelligence Integration engineering team at Planet. Focused on guiding remote teams to deliver satellite imagery solutions for large Defense & Intelligence customers.

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.

Requirements

• 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.

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