Planet

Planet

Senior Software Engineering Manager

United States, Remote · Senior · Contract

Sponsorship not specified$172k-$215kDetected 61 days ago
Code ReviewMachine LearningLLMsStatisticsHardware DesignResearchLeadershipMentoring

About the role

  • 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.

Responsibilities

  • Guide your team of software engineers and data scientists to deliver successful products for the Global Monitoring Service.
  • 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.
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Skills

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Compensation

  • The US base salary range for this full-time position at the commencement of employment is listed below.
  • The final salary range is determined by job related experience, skills and location.
  • The range displays our typical hiring range for new hire salaries in US locations only.
  • Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
  • New York City + California Salary Range
  • San Francisco Salary Range

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
  • Commuter Benefits (if local to an office)
  • Volunteering Paid Time Off
  • Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary short-term and long-term incentives (bonus and equity).

Company info

  • Your work will be highly visible and will directly impact the ability of customers to get faster access to Planet's unprecedented datasets

Equal opportunity

  • Planet is committed to building a community where everyone belongs and we invite people from all backgrounds to apply.
  • Planet is an equal opportunity employer, and committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
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