Key skills
Software engineering managementData-intensive software productsDistributed cloud computingMachine learningChange managementGeospatial dataInterpersonal skillsMentoringTeam collaborationMachine LearningChange ManagementProduct Management
About this role
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, ensuring efficient delivery of products for Defense & Intelligence customers while fostering a collaborative team culture.
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
- Experience building products using sensor or geospatial data
- Experience working with satellite or airborne earth observations data
- Interest in defense, intelligence or spatial imagery