Senior Platform Engineer (Infrastructure & Backend Systems)

Senior Platform Engineer (Infrastructure & Backend Systems) ROLE HIGHLIGHTS: • Senior Platform Engineer (Infrastructure & Backend Systems) • Location: Espoo, Finland • Department: ISR Analytics • Reports to: Director of inSAR Analytics • Employment type: Permanent • Workplace model: Hybrid (3 days per week in office) • Employment is subject to applicable security screening (incl. SUPO, where required) WHY THIS ROLE MATTERS: As Senior Platform Engineer for the InSAR Exploitation team, you will design and build the infrastructure foundations that power ICEYE's advanced SAR analytics systems — ensuring they run reliably and consistently across both cloud environments and customer-owned on-premise deployments. This is an architectural role, not an operations one: you will define how environments are structured, provisioned, and reproduced at scale, establishing the deployment models, infrastructure automation, and platform abstractions that other engineers build on. With on-premise deployments as a first-class constraint from day one, every decision you make must account for portability, repeatability, and security across many independent instances — directly enabling critical intelligence insights to reach users when they matter most. 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 - Platform foundations for compute and deployment. Infrastructure that supports long-running data processing workloads and can be reproduced consistently across cloud and on-prem environments. You will define how these environments are structured, provisioned, and maintained. - Deployment and environment model. Systems where environments are treated as replaceable and reproducible rather than manually maintained. Clear separation between platform capabilities and application code, with well-defined interfaces. - Infrastructure automation. Infrastructure-as-code and deployment pipelines that work across environments. Tooling that abstracts away differences between cloud and on-prem deployments, allowing the same system to run in both. - On-premise-first architecture with cloud as a development tool. We use cloud environments for development speed and iteration, but the platform must be designed so that customer deployments on-premise are first-class. This constraint should shape infrastructure decisions from the beginning. - Execution model for workloads. How long-running, batch, and asynchronous workloads are defined, triggered, and observed. You will help establish patterns for how processing pipelines are expressed and executed, without locking into a single implementation approach. - Security and access control. Identity and access models that scale across multiple environments, ... (truncated, view full listing at source)