About the company
ICEYE delivers space-based intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities to governments and allied nations. This includes sovereign and turnkey ISR missions leveraging ICEYE’s world-leading synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite technology, as well as access to data from the world’s largest SAR satellite constellation. These capabilities enable partners to detect and respond to critical changes anywhere on Earth with unprecedented speed and accuracy, day or night and in any weather, supported by ultra high-resolution imagery and high-frequency revisits.
As a trusted partner for defense, intelligence, security, and maritime domain awareness, ICEYE’s near real-time data creates a tactical advantage for mission-critical operations. Designed for dual use, the platform also serves civil protection and commercial users for natural-catastrophe intelligence, insurance, maritime monitoring including oil-spill detection, and finance, contributing to global security and community resilience.
ICEYE is headquartered in Finland and operates globally across Europe, North America, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. We have more than 900 employees, united by a shared vision: improving life on Earth by becoming the global source of truth in Earth Observation.
Responsibilities
- Design and operate scalable backend services for satellite fleet planning
- Build production-grade distributed systems with strong reliability and observability practices
- Own services end-to-end: design → deploy → monitor → improve
- Work closely with engineers across ground systems, satellite ops, and external integrations
- Improve system performance, fault tolerance, and operational visibility
Requirements
Must haves:
- 5+ years of experience building and running production backend systems
- Strong focus on operability alongside implementation (monitoring, alerting, debugging)
- Proven experience with distributed systems at scale (latency, throughput, failure modes)
- Proficiency in writing clean, maintainable code in Python, Go, or similar
- Active use of AI-assisted development tools (e.g., copilots, LLMs) to improve productivity, code quality, and product problem-solving
- Hands-on experience with modern infrastructure (containers, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code)
- Demonstrated ability and interest in solving complex, constraint-heavy problems
Nice to haves:
- Experience with observability stacks (metrics, tracing, logging)
- Background in scheduling, optimization, or resource allocation problems
Conditions
- Base salary range for this position is 6000 - 8000 € per month (gross), depending on experience, and will be negotiated individually.
- Employment type: Permanent
- Workplace model: Hybrid
- Employment is subject to applicable security screening (incl. SUPO, where required)
- Benefits are designed to support your health and wellbeing, at work and beyond. Offerings vary by location.