Software Engineer - SAR Processing Platform

• 2 to 5 years of backend software engineering experience, with solid Go and working Python, and willingness to read and occasionally change Rust
• Hands-on Kubernetes and Docker as a developer: you have deployed, debugged and sized workloads yourself, not only used a cluster someone else ran
• PostgreSQL (schema design, migrations, query debugging) and AWS fundamentals (S3, IAM, EKS or equivalent)
• Experience running software in production, including incident debugging and postmortems
• Pragmatic use of AI/LLM tools in daily development, fluent English, and comfort asking and answering questions in a distributed team

• Argo Workflows, Airflow or similar; NATS or Kafka; any Rust experience
• Geospatial or remote-sensing data (GeoTIFF, COG, STAC, GDAL), or any large-file scientific data pipeline
• Helm, Flux, Terraform; Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry

Job title: Software Engineer Location: Espoo, Finland Department: SAR Processing Platform Reports to: Team Lead SAR Processing Platform Employment type: Permanent Workplace model: Hybrid - 3 days in the office

Employment is subject to applicable security screening (incl. SUPO, where required)

As a Software Engineer, you’ll help build and run the platform that every ICEYE image passes through before a customer sees it. The SAR Processing Platform validates raw radar data, decides when and where to process it, runs the processing workflows, catalogs the products and gates their delivery. You’ll join a small team that owns this orchestration layer end to end, covering how incoming data is validated, scheduled and processed, how products are cataloged and delivered, and the tools operators use to run it.

The platform runs in the cloud and on on-premises clusters at customer sites, and you’ll work daily with SAR processing engineers, other engineering teams across the platform, DevOps, product and delivery.

• Recruiter Interview (30 mins online)
• Hiring Manager Interview (60 mins online)
• Technical Interview/ Task ( 60- 90 mins)
• Onsite/ Final Interview (60 mins)

At ICEYE, you’ll join a diverse and highly engaged team united by the ambition to make the impossible possible. As a global scale-up, we combine speed and ambition with the opportunity to take real ownership from day one. Your growth, wellbeing, and success are a priority, with continuous professional development, training opportunities, and a culture where collaboration is how we win.

Our benefits are designed to support your health and wellbeing, at work and beyond. We keep improving them based on employee feedback, and offerings vary by location. Talent Acquisition will confirm what applies for this role and location during the process.

Who We Are

ICEYE is the world leader in sovereign intelligence from space. We deliver persistent monitoring capabilities to detect and respond to changes in any location on Earth.

ICEYE owns the world’s largest and most advanced SAR (synthetic aperture radar) satellite constellation. To our customers we provide intelligence with unmatched quality, latency and revisit times, in any weather, day or night. To governments who choose to operate their own constellation we provide this proven capability as a sovereign system.

ICEYE-built constellations serve customers in defence and intelligence, environmental monitoring, insurance and emergency management. We enable fast decisions that contribute to a safer future.

Founded and headquartered in Finland, ICEYE operates globally with over 1000 employees across Europe, North America, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.

How We Work (Our Values)

Make the impossible possible: We set ambitious goals and stay calm under pressure. We bring grit, optimism, and ownership when things get hard, and we keep moving until we find a way.

Be curious: Go deep, ask questions, listen carefully, and think critically. Understand the “why” behind decisions.

See the big picture: Stay close to what’s happening across the company so you can make better decisions. Consider how your work affects others.

Drive effective teamwork: Create psychological safety, invite different perspectives, and build inclusive teams. There are no bad questions.

Act as one team: We win together. We match tasks to the right owner and stay agile as priorities shift.

Have fun: What we do matters, and it should be enjoyable. Celebrate progress, take pride in results, and share the wins.