Staff Software Engineer

About the role

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. Your day-to-day responsibilities Own the technical vision and architecture of the API platform, including versioning strategy, stability contracts, compatibility guarantees, and the abstractions that protect customers from churn in underlying services Write, review, and ship production code in Go while leading through hands-on technical contribution Define and drive the engineering practices that make our APIs trustworthy, including contract testing, graceful degradation, clear error semantics, and honest deprecation cycles Make observability a first-class concern by designing for debuggability using our LGTM stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir) Ensure API quality and operational clarity across both cloud and on-premises deployment models Make deliberate and well-reasoned technical decisions by balancing architectural improvement with pragmatic delivery needs Mentor engineers across the domain through pairing, design reviews, and structured feedback while raising the collective engineering bar without becoming a bottleneck Collaborate with product managers, engineering teams, and internal stakeholders to align technical direction with business priorities and customer needs

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience designing and operating customer-facing APIs at production scale
• Deep understanding of distributed systems reliability, including failure modes, graceful degradation, idempotency, and how to build systems that remain stable when dependencies do not
• Strong experience with observability and production operations using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or the LGTM stack
• Experience working across both cloud and on-premises environments using technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform
• Strong hands-on software engineering skills in Go or a similar backend programming langu

Benefits

Additional Information

Role highlights: Staff Software Engineer Location: Espoo, Finland Department: Business Automation (Customer-facing Systems and Interfaces) Reports to: Senior Engineering Manager Employment type: Permanent Workplace model: Hybrid, 3 days at the office Employment is subject to applicable security screening (incl. SUPO) Why this role matters: As a Staff Software Engineer you will be the technical owner of our API platform within ICEYE's engineering domain responsible for customer-facing systems and interfaces. Our customers integrate directly with the APIs we build to task our satellite fleet, access SAR imagery, and drive critical decisions. Those APIs need to be something they can trust unconditionally. You will provide hands-on technical leadership across the domain, shaping how we design, build, version, and operate APIs for the long term. We ship to cloud environments on a daily cadence and to on-premises environments as packaged, versioned monthly releases. Many of the underlying services we integrate with are fast-moving or imperfect, and your role is to ensure that uncertainty never reaches our customers. This is a senior individual contributor role with no people management responsibility. Your impact comes through technical vision, pragmatic judgment, and raising the bar for the engineers around you through pairing, design reviews, and leading by example. You help others grow without making their growth depend on you. Our primary development language is Go. We use PostgreSQL for storage and NATS for event-based communication, running on Kubernetes in both cloud (AWS) and on-premises environments. We also use Cursor, Devin, and other LLM-based tools heavily in our daily work, and value engineers who are comfortable occasionally contributing to frontend development using TypeScript and React.

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