Senior Software Engineering Manager, Planet

• 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

Desirable

• 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
• 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

• Application Deadline: May 16, 2026 at 11:59p PT