Senior Software Engineer (Telemetry)

The role

You will build and maintain telemetry pipelines, parsers, and time-series stores to translate satellite signals into operational state. You will work on the Fleet Automation team to ensure reliable data ingestion and automated recovery systems.

What you will do

• Ingest, transform, and store satellite data from across the fleet reliably in near real-time
• Maintain performant telemetry data stores including schema design and query optimisation
• Perform capacity planning and zero-downtime production migrations
• Develop anomaly detection and automated recovery systems
• Deliver TTC gateway telemetry integration as a production-grade component
• Raise engineering quality through code reviews, testing standards, and supporting less experienced engineers

Required qualifications

• Strong Python proficiency in production backend systems
• Proven experience building and operating telemetry systems, data pipelines, and distributed systems in production
• Strong working knowledge of PostgreSQL
• Strong working knowledge of at least one time-series database such as InfluxDB or Prometheus
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes-native environments
• Hands-on experience with Docker
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and Helm
• Actively uses AI and LLM tooling as part of engineering workflow

Nice to have

• Experience with Go or Rust
• AWS or equivalent cloud platform experience

Benefits

• Occupational healthcare, occupational, and accident insurance
• Yearly benefit budget for sport, transport, bike benefit, wellness, lunch, etc.
• Phone subscription with iPhone of choice
• Relocation support including flight tickets, accommodation, and relocation agency support
• Time for self-development, research, training, conferences, or certification schemes
• Inspiring and collaborative offices and silent workspaces

Before you apply

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

About the company

ICEYE delivers space-based intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities to governments and allied nations using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite technology. The company has more than 900 employees and operates internationally.