Senior Software Engineering Manager

Planet

Senior Engineering Manager responsible for Defense Intelligence Integration team at Planet. Guiding software engineers and data scientists to deliver successful products for Global Monitoring Service.

Posted 5/21/2026full-time🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $160,600 - $200,800 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringstatisticsmachine learningdata-intensive software productschange managementmanaging tech debtsolution buildstask planningcode reviewsinference pipelines

Soft Skills

mentoringcoachinginterpersonal skillsverbal communicationwritten communicationteam buildingproblem-solvingcollaborationleadershipstrategic decision-making