Software Engineering Manager, Identity And Access Management

Summary

Join Planet's Identity and Access Management (IAM) team as a Software Engineering Manager in a full-time, remote position based in Austria. Lead a team of engineers in building and maintaining IAM services and web applications for Planet and Sentinel Hub platforms. Responsibilities include team leadership, project planning and execution, cross-functional collaboration, performance feedback and mentoring, service operation, and technical contribution. The ideal candidate possesses 4+ years of industry experience, including 2+ years managing software engineers, and expertise in Java, REST APIs, and relational databases. Excellent communication skills are essential. Planet offers a remote-friendly work environment, paid time off, an employee wellness program, home office and phone/internet reimbursements, tuition reimbursement, equity, and volunteering paid time off.

Requirements

• 4+ years of industry experience, and 2+ years of experience as a manager/supervisor responsible for software engineers
• Experience leading teams to deliver highly available, consistently performant services
• Experience with Java or other similar object oriented language
• Experience with REST APIs, HTTP(S)
• Excellent grasp of relational databases
• Excellent communication skills in English, written and oral
• Experience working in cross-functional teams that put customer requirements first
• Ability to be adaptable and open to changes and challenges

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of software engineers, including planning and code reviews
• Take ownership for the overall planning, execution and success of sophisticated technical projects
• Represent your team in cross-functional interactions, such as vetting out product requirements, aligning priorities across various branches of the organisation as well as managing dependencies with other engineering leads
• Think critically about the long-term career development of team members, providing regular performance feedback and mentoring
• Conduct regular check-ins and 1-1s with team members
• Own the operation of services by measuring performance, creating alerts, runbooks, and responding to incidents and performance anomalies
• Contribute technically to projects by being a hands-on coder and technical resource as necessary and removing roadblocks. In this role you may code up to 50% of your time

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Python
• Experience in authentication technologies such as OAuth and IAM
• Experience building backend services and infrastructure that scales and is easy to evolve

Benefits

• Paid time off including vacation, holidays and company-wide days off
• Remote-friendly work environment
• Employee Wellness Program
• Home Office Reimbursement
• Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
• Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
• Equity
• Volunteering Paid Time Off