Senior Software Engineer (Go/Python/Java)

Location: Haarlem, Netherlands; hybrid work with three days per week in the Haarlem office

Salary: €75,000–€93,700 gross per year

Company

Develops and operates a constellation of imaging satellites and a cloud-based platform that provides satellite imagery and derived geospatial data for commercial, environmental, and humanitarian use cases.

What you will do

• Build, deploy, and maintain performant distributed services and highly available APIs for imagery access and geospatial analysis.
• Develop production systems using Go, Java, and/or Python with a strong focus on customer experience.
• Collaborate with engineers and product managers across multiple cross-functional teams and contribute to engineering design decisions.
• Write maintainable, observable, well-documented code and participate in code reviews.
• Operate services through SRE practices, including performance measurement, load testing, alerting, dashboards, runbooks, and incident response.
• Participate in a rapid-response on-call rotation and use AI tooling responsibly throughout the development lifecycle.

Requirements

• 6+ years of production software development experience, preferably with Python, Java, and/or Go.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Geosciences, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with GCP or AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Git, large codebases, merge-request reviews, and complex CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with relational databases, document stores, key-value stores, and major cloud platforms.
• Strong software engineering, problem-solving, analytical, written, verbal, and collaborative communication skills.
• Ability to learn independently, navigate ambiguous problem spaces, and assess when AI is useful in software development.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with geospatial concepts and standards, including GeoTIFF, GeoJSON, and STAC.
• Experience with remotely sensed products, associated metadata, and orthorectified imagery.
• Experience with observability platforms such as Grafana.

Culture & Benefits

• Distributed collaboration across Europe and North America with an emphasis on clear asynchronous communication.
• Occasional team off-sites at global offices.
• Paid vacation, holidays, and company-wide days off.
• Employee wellness program, home-office reimbursement, and monthly phone and internet reimbursement.
• Tuition reimbursement, LinkedIn Learning access, equity, and paid volunteering time off.

Hiring process

• Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis and the posting may close early once a suitable pool is reached.
• Selected interviews may be recorded with candidate consent for transcription and summarization; opting out does not affect candidacy.
• AI tools are prohibited during live interviews and assessments unless explicitly permitted.