Senior Data Engineer

at  ICEYE

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

To support the company’s growth, we continue to scale our Satellite Communications Network team and are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join us in the Helsinki area, Finland. ICEYE Satellite Communications Network is responsible for creating high reliability and high throughput communication between the ground systems and the satellites in ICEYE fleet globally. Various teams are working on contact planning and configuration, TT&C chain, payload downlinking and ground station infrastructure around it. We are looking for an engineer who can develop tools which can analyze our satellite communication contact quality.

REQUIREMENTS

• Data driven mindset and and knowledge of data visualization types and methods.
• Good understanding of the pros/cons of data transfer options such as ETL, push/pull and event trigger models and when to use which.
• Hands-on experience on building efficient data pipelines.
• Experience of the GNU/Linux, AWS cloud computing, microservices and software security.
• Understanding of Python and/or Go languages.
• While prior knowledge of spacecraft communication links is not required at the start, you must be eager to learn and become proficient in this area.

ABOUT THE ROLE?

As a Senior Data Engineer at ICEYE, you will build services and platforms which analyze our satellite communication links on a global scale. You develop software services which can read data from internal and external data sources, such as ICEYE in-house satellite operations services, third-party ground stations and ICEYE satellites, and generate actionable metrics and data about monitoring satellite communication reliability. You identify different data sources, create tools to gather this information and generate ways to display it to internal stakeholders. You will work closely with QA engineers and Operations & Maintenance Support Engineers, who help define the metrics, and alongside Software Engineers who have developed the software services used for the mission. You will also work closely with UI/UX engineers to define ways to visualize data. Most of the services are written with Python and/or Go and running on Kubernetes clusters e.g. on AWS cloud, so it is expected that you are familiar with those tools.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Create tools and platform to analyze and monitor satellite contact quality and reliability
• Identify different data sources, create tools to collect the relevant information and generate clean ways to display it for internal stakeholders
• Provide data-driven solutions for contact quality for both S and X-bands during both nominal operations and testing phases
• Collaborate with QA and O&M Support Engineers to evaluate metrics for monitoring, and other internal engineers while developing the tools