ICEYE
Staff Platform Engineer - Core Platform Engineering
Part remote, part office, you need to live within commuting distance of a named location.
Hybrid · Espoo
Employer listed it 6 months ago · Added 4 days ago
Been open since 6 months ago. Long-running listings are sometimes left up after the role is filled.
Salary
Not stated
Location
Hybrid · Espoo
Timezone
Not stated
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Lead
Category
Software
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Remote flexibility
Hybrid
This role is only partly remote, the employer expects time in the office around Espoo, Hybrid, so you need to live within commuting distance.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "Espoo, Hybrid"
- Listing mentions "Hybrid"
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- Not suitable if you plan to move between countries
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About the role
Title : Staff Platform Engineer
Department : Platform & Release Engineering
Location : Espoo, Finland
Reports to : Infrastructure Engineering Lead
Employment type : Permanent
Workplace model : Hybrid
Employment is subject to applicable security screening (incl. SUPO)
Why this role matters:
As a Senior / Staff Platform Engineer, you’ll own and evolve the foundations that all services rely on, leading the design and operation of a secure, scalable Kubernetes platform across cloud and on-prem environments so product teams can ship faster with less friction and stronger reliability at scale.
Who We Are
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
Design, operate, and continuously improve a secure, scalable, and resilient Kubernetes platform across cloud and on-prem environments
Build and maintain standardized platform capabilities such as ingress, service mesh, secrets management, and lifecycle automation
Develop reusable infrastructure patterns and Terraform modules for AWS and on-prem platforms to enable fast, auditable provisioning
Strengthen observability through clear metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and actionable alerting that support effective operational decisions
Reduce platform friction for product teams by providing architectural guidance, platform standards, and hands-on enablement
Automate platform lifecycle management including bootstrap, upgrades, scaling, and operational maintenance to reduce manual effort and risk
Drive technical direction and sound architectural choices across platform engineering with pragmatic trade-offs between reliability, security, speed, and maintainability
Help raise engineering maturity by mentoring others and shaping shared engineering standards across teams
What we’re looking for
Must haves:
Requirements
The employer hasn't listed requirements separately, they're described in the role summary above and on the original listing.
Benefits
- ·Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- ·We’re committed to fair, inclusive hiring and equal opportunity. Everyone is welcome to apply. If you need any adjustments or support during the recruitment process, tell us and we will do our best to help.
- ·Apply now to start your ICEYE journey and help us continue to make the impossible possible together. Read more about ICEYE and working with us at iceye.com .
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, hybrid, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at ICEYE, mentioning your remote working experience.
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
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