Planet is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager with a proven background in guiding and mentoring high-performing engineering teams. Responsible for the Defense Intelligence Integration engineering team. Mission to bring Planet’s catalog of imagery and tasking to large Defense & Intelligence customers. Work will be highly visible and will directly impact customer access to Planet’s datasets. Emphasis on enabling team members to do their best work in a supportive environment. Ensure engineers are unblocked on dependencies and lead in defining the team’s work. Organize work to align with organizational and team practices. Team has a highly collaborative culture and is distributed remotely. This is a full-time, remote position based in the United States. If located near an office, expected to work from that office 3 days per week. Impact You'll Own 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.