Head of Data Engineering

Remote (United States)

Planet is seeking a Head of Data Engineering to join and help build its cross-functional Data team. The team is responsible for bringing best-in-class Data Products to Planeteers as we look to achieve our North Star over the next decade and enable every Planeteer to measure the impact of their work towards our triple-bottom-line (planet, people, profit). This leader will play a critical role in shaping the team’s technical direction, designing and implementing the data architecture that enables reporting, analytics, data science, and machine learning. This position is a hands-on Data Engineering role, with the core focus being on developing and deploying production-grade code, bringing the best of Product Management and DevOps practices to bear. There is also opportunity for this to be a people leadership role that builds and manages a high-performing team of Data Engineers.

Impact You’ll Own:

Architect and implement large-scale data processing infrastructure that enables analytics, data science, and machine learning in a cloud environment supporting hundreds of concurrent users
Develop best practices for data creation, collection, storage, processing, access and value creation that impact company-wide data strategy across Planet’s footprint
Partner with software engineering teams and data stewards to model foundational schemas, and establish data contracts to improve production-level data quality at every stage of the data lifecycle
Participate in design and architectural review sessions with data team and software engineering partners to ensure we can instrument and measure what matters most to our customers
Collaborate with engineering and product leadership to translate business requirements into data products, managed with product lifecycle

What You Bring:

8+ years of experience in a data engineering role building end-to-end ETL/ELT pipelines, and working with data warehouses, data lakes, and their underlying infrastructure
Experience with data governance, schema design, and schema evolution
Progressive leadership experience mentoring and coaching others, and partnering with cross-functional teams
Experience building, maintaining & improving batch data pipelines using DAG-based tools such as Airflow
Experience with cloud computing platforms such as Google Cloud Platform & AWS
Experience implementing DevOps best practices within the data platform, including solutions for CI/CD, data observability, monitoring, and lineage

What Makes You Stand Out:

Experience playing decision making role in buy vs build decisions across Data stack
A passion for, and track record of, playing full-stack Data leader, thinking carefully about data quality, use cases, and ROI of data infrastructure investments
Experience in producing and consuming topics to/from Apache Kafka, Google Cloud Dataflow, AWS Kinesis, or Azure Event Hubs
Experience with Infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform
Experience developing real-time data pipelines using frameworks such as Apache Beam, Flink, Storm, Spark Streaming, etc.

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 $149,600 - $246,000. 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.

Why we care so much about Belonging.

We’re dedicated to helping the whole Planet, and to do that we must strive to represent all of it within each of our offices and on all of our teams. That’s why Planet is guided by an ultimate north star of Belonging, dreaming big as we approach our ongoing work with diversity, equity and inclusion. If this job intrigues you, but you’re thinking you might not have all the qualifications, please... do apply! At Planet, we are looking for well-rounded people from around the world who can contribute to more ways than just what is listed in this job description. We don’t just fill positions, we aspire to fulfill people’s careers, most excited about folks who are motivated by our underlying humanitarian efforts. We are a few orbits around the sun before we get to where we want to be, so we hope you’re excited to come along for the ride.

EEO statement:

Planet is committed to building a community where everyone belongs and we invite people from all backgrounds to apply. Planet is an equal opportunity employer, and committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Accommodations:

Planet is an inclusive community and we know that everyone has their own needs. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation during the interview process, please call Planet's front office at 669-214-9404 or contact your recruiter with your request. Your message will be confidential and we will be happy to assist you.

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