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Work on flight dynamics and mission planning for Planet's satellite constellations, including mission design, orbit determination, maneuver design/execution, conjunction assessment, and scheduling optimization. Develop and automate software tools and first-principles analyses to evaluate mission design trade-offs, collaborate with planning and ground teams, and operationalize MVP solutions to improve current and future missions.

As Senior Manager of Talent Operations, you will oversee and enhance the hiring process, ensuring operational excellence throughout the recruiting lifecycle while managing a team and executing the Talent Operations Roadmap.

The role involves designing and validating onboard satcom links and ground radios, leading integration and testing with RF and optical communications systems, and collaborating with various engineering teams.

Lead a global team of high-touch Customer Success Managers for commercial accounts to drive adoption, retention, and expansion. Own regional performance metrics, serve as executive escalation for key accounts, co-lead executive business reviews, analyze usage and health data to surface expansion and churn risks, and align cross-functional teams (Sales, Product, Professional Services) to deliver measurable ROI and value.

Build and maintain full-stack systems for a global monitoring application supporting federal partners and satellite data access. Responsibilities include designing scalable backend services and frontend applications, improving architecture and infrastructure, integrating complex customer requirements, and owning mission-system quality and availability. The role requires collaboration across teams throughout the engineering lifecycle and experience with cloud infrastructure, observability, geospatial data, and complex integrations.

Build and operate highly scalable storage infrastructure supporting petabyte-scale imagery data. Responsibilities include developing backend services and APIs, managing object storage and metadata indexing, tuning Elasticsearch, improving disaster recovery, monitoring performance, responding to incidents, contributing to architecture and roadmaps, and advising engineers. The role requires strong production software engineering experience with Go or Python, cloud-native systems, relational and non-relational databases, and highly available services.

Lead frontend development for a satellite-data monitoring application serving defense and intelligence customers. Design and implement React and TypeScript features, guide frontend architecture, contribute to backend APIs, mentor engineers through reviews and technical discussions, and collaborate with product managers and designers. Own feature delivery from discovery through deployment while improving state management, data fetching, component design, testing, and frontend best practices.

Build, maintain, and operate Mission Control web app and supporting microservices for satellite operations. Implement HTTP APIs, design and deploy infrastructure, automate workflows, ensure CI/CD and testing, collaborate with cross-functional teams to support spacecraft scheduling, telemetry, and operational needs.

The Software Engineer in Platform Operations designs and manages core infrastructure, ensuring secure, scalable, and reliable platform operations while collaborating with software engineers to improve deployment experiences.

Sell Planet's satellite imagery and data to state and local government agencies: generate pipeline, manage contracts, close large deals, expand accounts, coordinate with SDRs, sales engineers, professional services and customer success, and inform civil go-to-market strategy while maintaining accurate CRM, forecasts, and account plans.