--- title: 'Senior Software Engineer, Flood Risk at ICEYE' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-software-engineer-flood-risk-iceye-espoo-ks468tggfnxh' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-12' --- # Senior Software Engineer, Flood Risk at ICEYE - **Company:** [ICEYE](https://feeny.ai/companies/iceye) - **Location:** Espoo, Finland - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-11-11 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-12 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/iceye/b02ffc1c-503a-41e0-a693-b7e4ab9a45f6 ## Job description ## Role highlights - Senior Software Engineer, Flood Risk - Location: Espoo, Finland (relocation supported) - Team: Flood Risk, Flood Solutions - Reports to: Flood Risk Team Lead - Workplace model: Hybrid (minimum 3 days per week in the office) - Employment is subject to applicable security screening (incl. SUPO, where required) ## Why this role matters We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to turn ICEYE's flood observation history into data products that help customers understand flood risk at their locations and areas of interest. ICEYE has observed floods worldwide with its synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite constellation for years, so we know where water has gone, how deep it got, and how often it returns. We are turning our analysis catalog into predictive insights and building a product that gives customers near real-time understanding of flood risk for a location of interest. You will join a senior team where the data scientists and machine learning engineers build the flood models, and you make them work in production, 24/7. ## Your day-to-day responsibilities You will own how flood risk gets from our models and data into customers' hands. In practice, that means: - Design and build the services and pipelines that compute, store, and serve flood risk for any location or area of interest. - Take models from notebooks to production with the data scientist and the ML engineer: tested, versioned code; reproducible inference; staged rollouts; and drift monitoring. A big part of the job is deciding what gets pre-computed and what runs at request time. - Design API-first. The contract is agreed before the code; the OpenAPI specification is the source of truth, and the documentation (reference, examples, changelog) lives in the repository as code, reviewed and validated in CI like everything else. - Build security and privacy in as a day 0 item: authentication, authorization, tenant isolation, least privilege, data minimization, and audit trails, so we can reproduce and explain every response we have served. You take part in threat modeling. - Run what you build, with automated tests and deployments, SLOs, dashboards and alerts, and automating away toil. This role includes an on-call rotation. - Design for data at scale (years of observations, customer portfolios of any size): data models, storage formats, partitioning and the batch versus streaming trade-offs, watching cost per request as closely as latency. - Make architecture decisions with our Staff Engineers (they work across the teams) and write them down as lightweight ADRs. - Mentor teammates and help the data and ML colleagues with production engineering practices (they will teach you flood science in return). ## What we are looking for Must have - 5+ years building and running production software in the cloud (AWS, Kubernetes, Docker), owning design and delivery at senior level. - You have operationalized machine learning models: taken research or notebook code into a production service or batch pipeline, and kept it versioned, reproducible, and monitored after launch. - You have architected and built API-first products for external customers, and evolved them without breaking callers (versioning, error contracts, backward compatibility). - API documentation as code is normal for you: OpenAPI with real examples, generated references, docs checked in CI. - You design with security and privacy as the default, backed by practical experience in OAuth 2.0 and OIDC, authorization models, the OWASP API Security Top 10, and protecting customer data. - You have operated software 24/7; high automation, test automation, and observability (metrics, logs, tracing, SLOs, alerting) are what you live and breathe, and you have learned from real incidents. - Experience designing data-intensive applications: data modeling, storage formats, partitioning, and performance and cost at scale. - Deep proficiency in Python for production services and data processing, and you are comfortable reading (and refactoring) a data scientist's notebook. - Good communication; you can explain a technical trade-off to an engineer, a data scientist, a product person, or a customer, and you are comfortable shaping a product while it is still being defined. - Hands-on use of AI coding assistants and agents in your daily work, with judgment on where they help and where they do not. ## Nice to have - Go for the services where raw performance matters. - MLOps and model serving tooling (MLflow, ONNX, SageMaker, feature stores and the like). - Geospatial data at scale: rasters, xarray, rasterio, GDAL, PostGIS, Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF, Zarr. - Insurance, catastrophe modeling, or flood risk; knowing what an insurer does with a risk score at quote time helps a lot. - ISO 27001, SOC 2, DORA, or GDPR in a regulated data environment, including customer security reviews. - Terraform. Application process - Talent Acquisition Partner screening - Director interview - Live Coding and Whiteboarding - SVP 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—we’ll 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](http://iceye.com). ## About ICEYE ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: ICEYE builds and operates the world’s largest synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite constellation, delivering persistent, day-and-night, all-weather Earth observation data and sovereign intelligence capabilities to governments and commercial customers. - **Entity Type**: Private (raised over €1B in total funding, latest round led by a €1B funding announcement) - **Headquarters**: Espoo, Finland - **Founded**: 2014 - **Founders**: Rafal Modrzewski (CEO) and Pekka Laurila (Chief Strategy Officer) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Space & Satellite Technology, Earth Observation, Defense & Intelligence, Insurance, Natural Disaster Response, Environmental Monitoring - **Target customers**: B2G (governments, defense, intelligence agencies), B2B (insurance companies, emergency management, environmental agencies, commercial enterprises) - **Mission or purpose statement**: “We enable fast decisions that contribute to a safer future.” ICEYE believes in unlocking the potential of SAR data to make it more accessible for governments, companies, organizations, and people. ## Products & Services - **SAR Satellite Constellation**: The world’s largest and most advanced synthetic aperture radar satellite constellation, providing imagery and data in any weather, day or night, with daily and sub-daily revisit times. - **Sovereign Intelligence Systems**: ICEYE offers governments the ability to operate their own dedicated constellation as a sovereign system, providing proven capability for defense and national security. - **Government Solutions – Flood Insights & Wildfire Insights**: Near real-time building-level impact assessments that blend SAR data with damage analysis, enabling emergency teams to quickly assess damage, deploy resources, and improve recovery outcomes. - **Natural Catastrophe Solutions for Insurance**: Building-level data enabling insurers to rapidly evaluate risks and respond effectively to floods, wildfires, and other extreme events. - **Defense & National Security Intelligence**: Actionable intelligence for strategic responses to emerging threats, empowering nations to safeguard their people and national interests. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total Funding raised — over **€1 billion** (as of the latest funding round, which ICEYE describes as a €1B funding round leading a new era of sovereign intelligence from space). Additionally, ICEYE secured a **€300 million revolving credit facility** to support continued growth. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not fully detailed in provided sources, but the company has closed multiple large funding rounds and credit facilities from institutional investors. Key partners include governments in defense, intelligence, insurance, and emergency management across Finland, Poland, Spain, Germany, the UK, Australia, Japan, the UAE, Greece, and the US. - **Growth Signals**: - Over **1,000 employees** globally, from more than 45 (or 75) nationalities. - Offices across Finland, Poland, Spain, Germany, the UK, Australia, Japan, the UAE, Greece, and the US. - Appointed **Eric Jensen** as Chief Operating Officer. - ISO 27001:2022 (information security) and ISO 9001:2015 (quality management) certified. - Satellites can be launch-ready within 15–24 months, enabling rapid constellation expansion. ## Competitive Advantages - **World’s largest SAR constellation**: Unmatched scale and revisit frequency (daily/sub-daily) compared to competitors. - **All-weather, day/night capability**: SAR technology pierces through clouds, smoke, and darkness, providing reliable data regardless of conditions. - **Sovereign offering**: Unique ability to sell entire constellations as sovereign systems to governments, creating deep, long-term partnerships. - **Proven commercial traction**: Deep integration with insurance and emergency management workflows, delivering quantifiable, building-level impact assessments. - **Strong certifications**: ISO 27001:2022 and ISO 9001:2015 provide customer assurance on security and quality. - **Speed to orbit**: Small, agile satellites enable rapid deployment (15–24 months from order to launch), a key differentiator in the space industry. ## Strategic Focus - **Scaling the constellation**: Continuing to expand the SAR satellite fleet to improve revisit times and global coverage. - **Sovereign intelligence**: Growing the “constellation-as-a-service” model for governments seeking independent space-based intelligence capabilities. - **Natural catastrophe resilience**: Deepening partnerships with insurers and emergency management agencies to improve community resilience and disaster response. - **National security**: Enhancing defense and intelligence offerings for governments worldwide. - **Global expansion**: Growing regional presence and operations across Europe, Asia-Pacific, North America, and the Middle East. - **Commercial diversification**: Expanding into new verticals beyond defense and insurance, such as environmental monitoring and critical infrastructure. ## Why Work Here - **Mission-driven impact**: Employees work on challenges that matter — enabling faster disaster response, protecting communities, and strengthening national security. - **Fast-paced ownership culture**: “At ICEYE, you take ownership early. You move fast, solve hard problems, and work alongside driven experts who care deeply about impact.” — ICEYE Careers page. - **Multicultural & diverse**: Colleagues from over 45 (or 75) nationalities, creating a truly international “NewSpace” environment. - **Values-driven**: Culture built on curiosity, collaboration, acting as one, seeing the big picture, driving effective teamwork, and having fun. - **Hybrid & remote flexibility**: Many roles are hybrid (combining office time with remote work), and some are fully remote within specific countries or time zones. Exact setup depends on the role and team. - **Benefits**: - Occupational healthcare, occupational and accident insurance - Time for self-development, research, training, conferences, or certification schemes - Relocation support (flight tickets, accommodation, relocation agency) - Yearly benefit budget (sport, transport, bike, wellness, lunch, etc.) - Inspiring office spaces with silent workspaces for focus - **Growth & learning**: Opportunity to work across engineering, software, data, product, and business roles — space/aerospace background not required for many positions as long as core skills are strong. - **Recruitment process**: Transparent and structured — recruiter call, hiring manager deep-dive, technical task (for relevant roles), team collaboration conversation, leadership discussion, and offer. Relocation and visa support available for most roles. ## Sources 1. [iceye.com](https://www.iceye.com/company) — Company overview, leadership, certifications, mission 2. [iceye.com](https://www.iceye.com/careers) — Careers page, culture, benefits, values 3. [iceye.com](https://www.iceye.com/careers/recruitment) — Recruitment FAQ, hybrid/remote policy, interview process 4. 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