Senior Go 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 Software 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.

ABOUT THE ROLE?

As a Senior Go Engineer, you will work for the Payload Downlink team. You are an experienced software engineer - especially with Go but also other languages - who creates, maintains and improves our payload downlinking system, which includes payload data receiving, decoding, decrypting service, data aggregation and monitoring around it. In addition to programming with Go, you will need fundamental skills with maintaining and developing the infrastructure around this service with tools such as Terraform and Helm, where you are assisted with the DevOps team.
You will be developing new features, as well as new software from scratch, to make modular and extensible systems, highly available and horizontally scalable. You will help design and implement all layers of it, and also provide APIs to internal stakeholders. Your target stack is for the most part Go services running on Kubernetes, and we do a lot of our own DevOps with infrastructure as code, be it Kubernetes manifests, Terraform infrastructure or directly interacting with cloud provider SDKs. We follow an agile process, aim at best practices, and are always willing to improve. You are accountable for your work and can show your results, with good quality monitoring metrics and actionable performance.
We are looking for a senior level software engineer, where you are required to be experienced on technical level and match the criteria. In addition, “senior” title requires an ability to take ownership and have accountability of certain software products which you will help design and implement, and help your co-workers with a positive and talented example.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• Developing our payload downlinking chain currently written with Go and some components with C with the flavor of other supporting languages, tools and frameworks.
• You are familiar with the Kubernetes running on top of cloud infrastructure, as the work requires maintaining and improve infrastructure around the service
• Following and promoting our agile processes, provide feedback and help to continuously improve them.
• Keeping your development skills up to date with recent trends and best practices.
• For senior candidates; Taking ownership of relevant products, gathering feedback from users and creating plans to incorporate it.