Staff Platform Engineer - Core Platform Engineering

Title : Staff Platform Engineer

Department : Platform & Release Engineering

Location : Espoo, Finland / Berlin, Germany

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:

8+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure roles operating production-critical services at scale

Deep hands-on expertise with Kubernetes, including cluster architecture, upgrades, control plane operations, networking, ingress, storage, security, and lifecycle management

Strong understanding of AWS fundamentals, including networking, IAM, compute, storage, and security patterns

Strong experience with Terraform and infrastructure as code, including reusable modules, abstractions, and scalable provisioning patterns

Strong practical observability experience, including SLO and SLI design, instrumentation, dashboarding, alert strategy, and production performance analysis

Proficiency in at least one backend language such as Python or Go for automation, tooling, and internal platform capabilities

Experience providing technical leadership through platform standards, architectural guidance, and hands-on enablement

Ability to operate effectively in complex environments and make pragmatic technical decisions across reliability, security, speed, and maintainability

Nice to haves:

Experience with Rancher, Istio, External Secrets, Vault, and software supply-chain hardening practices

Experience operating Kubernetes in restricted, disconnected, or air-gapped environments

Experience with hybrid platforms spanning AWS and on-prem environments such as vSphere or VxRail

Application Process

Talent Attraction Introduction

Hiring Manager Alignment

Task Assignment

Technical Interview

Director Interview

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 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 .