Senior Software Engineering Manager
PlanetRemote
Full Time
Posted February 26, 2026
$172k - $215k
Power Generation
Remote
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Job Description
Planet designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites in history.
Key Responsibilities
- 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.
- This is a full-time, remote position based in the United States. If located near an office, you are expected to work from that office 3 days per week.
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.
- This position requires access to export-controlled information, and as such, employment (or hiring of a contractor) is contingent upon the candidate’s ability to access all applicable export-controlled information without additional export licensing being required by the Bureau of Industry and Security and/or the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls.
Benefits & Perks
- These offerings are dependent on employment type and geographical location, based upon applicable law or company policy.
- 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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