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
Company Overview
Planet is an aerospace and data analytics company that builds small satellites and delivers information about the changing planet. It was founded in 2010, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is http://www.planet.com.