Senior Software Engineering Manager

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.

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

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)

Planet is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager with a proven background in guiding and mentoring high-performing engineering teams.

In this role, you will be responsible for the Defense Intelligence Integration engineering team. The mission of this team is to bring Planet’s catalog of imagery and tasking to large Defense & Intelligence customers. Your work will be highly visible and will directly impact the ability of customers to get faster access to Planet’s unprecedented datasets

This is very much a “servant leadership” role, with a high emphasis on enabling your team members to do their best work in an environment that sets them up for success. In particular, you’ll ensure engineers are unblocked on dependencies, take the lead in defining the team’s work, and organize that work in a way that best aligns with organizational and team practices. The team has a highly collaborative culture and is distributed remotely across the Earth.

This is a full-time, remote position based in the United States. If located near an office, you are expected to work from that office 3 days per week.