Staff Platform Engineer

📋 Job Overview

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.

🏢 About ICEYE

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.

🎯 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)

✅ Key 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

📌 Required Qualifications

• 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

⭐ Desirable Experience

• 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

🎁 Benefits

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.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Employment is subject to applicable security screening (incl. SUPO)