Senior Geospatial Software Engineer

ICEYE; Espoo; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

ICEYE, a global leader in sovereign intelligence from space, seeks a Senior Geospatial Software Engineer in Espoo, Finland. You will build and run the geospatial data platform that ingests elevation, hydrology, building, and satellite imagery data and serves it via APIs used across the company.

You’ll own production pipelines, develop REST/STAC APIs, and process large raster/vector datasets. Relentless focus on quality, testing, and scalable infrastructure is essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Python in production with spatial data processing.
• Strong PostgreSQL/PostGIS skills for large datasets.
• Experience with production pipelines using Dagster, Airflow, or Prefect.
• Experience building HTTP services with async Python frameworks and ORMs.
• Ability to extend large Python codebases with testable production-grade code.
• Familiarity with containers, CI/CD, cloud storage, and Kubernetes.
• Master's degree or equivalent depth from experience.

Responsibilities

• Pipeline Development: Build and maintain production pipelines collecting data from external providers and load into spatial databases.
• Pipeline Operations: Own pipelines in production, respond to failures, adapt ingestion as schemas change.
• Data Delivery: Develop and operate REST and STAC APIs with stable contracts and performance.
• Geospatial Processing: Process large raster/vector datasets with reprojection, tiling, and quality checks.
• Engineering Quality: Improve automated testing, CI/CD, and data quality monitoring.
• Stakeholder Partnership: Align with stakeholders on requirements and write specs and decision records.

Skills

Python in production

Spatial indexing

PostGIS

HTTP services

Async frameworks

Kubernetes

CI/CD

AI tooling

Geospatial data processing

Education

Master's degree in CS or related field

Equivalent depth from real-world experience

Tools

Dagster

Airflow

Prefect

Docker

PostgreSQL tooling

Job description

Role highlights:

• Senior Geospatial Software Engineer

• Location: Espoo, Finland. Relocation to Finland required

• Department: Product Engineering, Solutions

• Reports to: Solutions Data Platform Team Lead

• Employment type: Permanent

• Workplace model: Hybrid

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

Why this role matters:

As a Senior Geospatial Software Engineer, you'll help build and run the geospatial data platform behind our analytics products. The platform ingests elevation, hydrology, building, and satellite imagery data from public and commercial providers and serves it through APIs used across the company, so the pipelines and APIs you build directly shape what other teams can rely on.

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.

Your day-to-day responsibilities

• Pipeline Development: Build and maintain production pipelines that collect data from external providers, process it, and load it into our spatial databases, using established ingest patterns and adding new sources.

• Pipeline Operations: Own pipelines in production, respond to failures, and adapt ingestion when upstream providers change their schemas, formats, or access rules.

• Data Delivery: Develop and operate the REST and STAC APIs that serve this data to internal and external consumers, with stable contracts and predictable performance.

• Geospatial Processing: Process large raster and vector datasets at scale, covering reprojection, mosaicking, tiling, format conversion, and quality validation.

• Engineering Quality: Improve automated testing, CI/CD, and data quality monitoring so that releases stay safe and repeatable.

• Stakeholder Partnership: Work directly with stakeholders to agree on requirements, explain data coverage, quality, and limitations, and write the specifications and decision records that support them.

What we’re looking for

Must haves:

• 5+ years of Python in production, with deep knowledge of spatial indexing, coordinate reference systems, vertical datums, and large-scale raster/vector processing trade-offs.

• Strong PostgreSQL/PostGIS skills: schema design, partitioning, query tuning, and safe migrations on large live datasets.

• Experience running production pipelines on an orchestration framework (Dagster, Airflow, or Prefect), designed to fail loudly and recover cleanly.

• Experience building and operating HTTP services in Python with a modern async framework and ORM, with stable, versioned contracts.

• Confidence extending complex Python codebases with testable, production-grade code.

• Comfort with containers, CI/CD, cloud storage/messaging, and Kubernetes.

• Expert, pragmatic use of AI-assisted tools (Cursor, Claude, Copilot) to speed up routine engineering.

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Geoinformatics, Geodesy, Remote Sensing, or a related field, or equivalent depth from real-world experience.

Nice to haves:

• Experience with satellite imagery.

• Familiarity with STAC, OGC API standards, or Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF.

• Experience integrating with public-sector or government data APIs.

• Data quality and observability tooling, for example dbt or OpenTelemetry.

• Infrastructure-as-code and GitOps experience.

Application Process

• TA Interview

• Hiring Manager Interview

• Take Home Task

• Panel Interview

• Department Lead Interview

• Final Interview with SVP of Solutions

Working at ICEYE

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.

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.

Benefits

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.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

We want ICEYE to be a place where people can be themselves and do great work. Different backgrounds and perspectives make us stronger, which is why we work to create an environment where people feel included, respected, and able to speak up. Whatever your background, we want you to bring your authentic self to the table.

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—we’ll do our best to help.