Role highlights:

• Role: Forward Deployed Backend/DevOps Engineer

• Location: Portugal (Lisbon)

• Reports to: VP, Forward Deployed Engineering

• Working type: Hybrid (On-site at customer locations approx. 50% of time)

• Must be eligible and able to attain relevant national and NATO security clearances.

• Must be based in-country and native level speaker of the country you're deploying to.

Why this role matters

In this role, you are the backend and infrastructure backbone defence and intelligence customers rely on. You deploy ICEYE's intelligence platform into secure (often air-gapped) environments and design the high-performance backend systems that move satellite data at scale — fast APIs, resilient services, tuned databases, automated infrastructure. Our stack: Python and Go services on Kubernetes, PostgreSQL and MongoDB, Terraform and Ansible, CI/CD pipelines that also run offline, cloud (AWS) and on-premises air-gapped clusters, with AI-assisted development as the def