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Planet is looking for an Engineering Manager with a proven background in hiring, mentoring, and leading high-functioning engineering teams.
In this role, you will lead the engineering team that owns large scale compute processing systems that supports imagery transformation and delivery. These systems are primarily responsible for backing external customer access to the continuous feed of imagery we receive from the satellites. Our infrastructure services span thousands of nodes and process terabytes of imagery data every day. You will ensure our infrastructure is highly reliable, secure, and scalable, and meets internal stakeholder needs.
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 “what” and “why” of the team’s work, and organize that work in a way that best aligns with organizational and team practices.
As part of the Infrastructure leadership team, you will work with your team and peers to build and execute a strategy that enables Planet’s mission with our core shared compute infrastructure built on Kubernetes and GCP. This will include things like capacity planning, scalability, observability, and orchestration with tools such as Kubernetes and CI/CD tooling. You will also support internal customers that run image processing and delivery operations on our compute services.
This role is deeply cross-functional, and building positive relationships across Product, Software Engineering, and Space Systems will be crucial to your success.
Impact You’ll Own:
- Collaborate across the engineering organization to align efforts, keep engineers unblocked, and ensure delivery of services/features/products
- Foster a culture of innovation and customer service within the team and the organization you support
- Evangelize the set of services your team owns across the engineering organizations in order to drive adoption of the architecture where required
- Ensure that the team is utilizing best practices for software development, testing, and deployment
- Contribute to the evolution of a computing infrastructure strategy that aligns with and supports Planet’s North Star and product strategy
- Own team roadmap strategy and execution against the roadmap priorities
What You Bring:
- Ability to build, retain, and grow diverse, geographically dispersed, high-performing teams
- Experience with managing teams that own and operate high-volume, highly available, scalable, distributed systems
- Experience building infrastructure/tooling at scale that gains widespread adoption
- Experience with growing team members through career development coaching, technical or non-technical mentoring, and creating an open and healthy team culture
- Proven asynchronous communication skills and ability to collaborate cross-functionally with partner Engineering and Product teams
- Experience working with various Agile methodologies and project management frameworks
What Makes You Stand Out:
- Deep experience leading a team that specializes in large scale computing systems
- Experience in geospatial or satellite imagery domains
Benefits While Working at Planet:
- Comprehensive Health Plan
- Wellness program and onsite massages in specific offices
- Flexible Time Off
- Recognition Programs
- Commuter Benefits
- Learning and Tuition Reimbursement
- Parental Leave
- Offsites and Happy Hours
- Volunteering Benefits
Compensation:
The US base salary range for this full-time position at the commencement of employment is $124,000 - $203,000. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary short-term and long-term incentives (bonus and equity). 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.
Planet is looking for an Engineering Manager with a proven background in hiring, mentoring, and leading high-functioning engineering teams.
In this role, you will lead the engineering team that owns large scale compute processing systems that supports imagery transformation and delivery. These systems are primarily responsible for backing external customer access to the continuous feed of imagery we receive from the satellites. Our infrastructure services span thousands of nodes and process terabytes of imagery data every day. You will ensure our infrastructure is highly reliable, secure, and scalable, and meets internal stakeholder needs.
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 “what” and “why” of the team’s work, and organize that work in a way that best aligns with organizational and team practices.
As part of the Infrastructure leadership team, you will work with your team and peers to build and execute a strategy that enables Planet’s mission with our core shared compute infrastructure built on Kubernetes and GCP. This will include things like capacity planning, scalability, observability, and orchestration with tools such as Kubernetes and CI/CD tooling. You will also support internal customers that run image processing and delivery operations on our compute services.
This role is deeply cross-functional, and building positive relationships across Product, Software Engineering, and Space Systems will be crucial to your success.
Impact You’ll Own:
- Collaborate across the engineering organization to align efforts, keep engineers unblocked, and ensure delivery of services/features/products
- Foster a culture of innovation and customer service within the team and the organization you support
- Evangelize the set of services your team owns across the engineering organizations in order to drive adoption of the architecture where required
- Ensure that the team is utilizing best practices for software development, testing, and deployment
- Contribute to the evolution of a computing infrastructure strategy that aligns with and supports Planet’s North Star and product strategy
- Own team roadmap strategy and execution against the roadmap priorities
What You Bring:
- Ability to build, retain, and grow diverse, geographically dispersed, high-performing teams
- Experience with managing teams that own and operate high-volume, highly available, scalable, distributed systems
- Experience building infrastructure/tooling at scale that gains widespread adoption
- Experience with growing team members through career development coaching, technical or non-technical mentoring, and creating an open and healthy team culture
- Proven asynchronous communication skills and ability to collaborate cross-functionally with partner Engineering and Product teams
- Experience working with various Agile methodologies and project management frameworks
What Makes You Stand Out:
- Deep experience leading a team that specializes in large scale computing systems
- Experience in geospatial or satellite imagery domains
Benefits While Working at Planet:
- Comprehensive Health Plan
- Wellness program and onsite massages in specific offices
- Flexible Time Off
- Recognition Programs
- Commuter Benefits
- Learning and Tuition Reimbursement
- Parental Leave
- Offsites and Happy Hours
- Volunteering Benefits
Compensation:
The US base salary range for this full-time position at the commencement of employment is $124,000 - $203,000. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary short-term and long-term incentives (bonus and equity). 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.
