Software Engineer

Introduction

Serco is a trusted leader in Space Services, with a proud history spanning over 55 years and a track record of supporting more than 50 space missions for world-renowned agencies like ESA and NASA. Our expertise covers the entire space lifecycle-from satellite testing and launch services to spacecraft operations, space surveillance, and data management-making us a key partner in advancing national strategies and driving innovation in the New Space era. High above Earth, Europe's space systems work silently in the background, supporting navigation, safety, and security across the continent.

On behalf of our team in Czech Republic, we are looking for a skilled Software Engineer to support Serco’s activities and a new project in Czech Republic. We are offering a full time, permanent position with excellent opportunities for career progress and development within the Space sector.

Key responsibilities:

• Analyse technical and operational requirements for integrating external services with the central monitoring platform.
• Design and implement API integrations, data collectors, adapters and interface scripts.
• Define technical interface specifications, data-exchange formats and error-handling mechanisms.
• Deploy and configure monitoring and ingestion components.
• Configure and maintain development, reference and operational environments.
• Validate that measurements are collected and transferred correctly.
• Automate deployments, testing and release activities.
• Coordinate technical releases and support transfer into production.
• Monitor integration components and troubleshoot operational problems.
• Investigate incidents and perform root-cause analysis.
• Implement approved changes to interfaces and ingestion logic.
• Ensure that integrations comply with security, configuration-management and operational requirements.
• Produce and maintain architecture, interface, deployment and operating documentation.
• Work closely with the central platform team, service owners and consortium partners.
• Support knowledge transfer and handover activities.

We are looking for someone who:

• Ownership, accountability and decision-making.
• Is curious about what data means, not only whether it has arrived.
• Notices inconsistencies and follows them through to the root cause.
• Can communicate effectively with both system engineers and domain experts.
• Is comfortable working with complex datasets from different source systems.
• Values accuracy, traceability and maintainability.
• Can combine day-to-day operational work with longer-term service improvement.
• Is able to act as a backup for basic integration and operational activities.

Technical knowledge and experience:

• A university degree in computer science, software engineering, information technology or equivalent professional experience.
• At least 5 years of experience in system integration, platform engineering, DevOps or backend software engineering.
• Strong programming or scripting skills, preferably in Python.
• Experience designing and integrating REST APIs or comparable machine-to-machine interfaces.
• Good knowledge of Linux environments.
• Practical experience with containers, preferably Docker.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments.
• Experience working with structured data formats such as JSON and XML.
• Understanding of authentication, certificates, access control and secure interface design.
• Professional working proficiency in English.

Additional skills:

• Knowledge of Earth Observation/ Earth Explorer missions/ Heritage Missions and VHR satellites.
• Kubernetes or another container orchestration platform.
• Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Elasticsearch or comparable observability technologies.
• Message queues, event-streaming platforms or asynchronous integrations.
• Cloud or private-cloud infrastructure.
• Time-series databases.
• Infrastructure-as-code or configuration-management tools.
• Earth Observation, satellite ground-segment or scientific-data systems.
• Formal release, configuration or change-management processes.

What We Offer: More Than Just a Job

At Serco, we believe your career should come with more than a payslip, it should come with peace of mind, flexibility, and opportunities to thrive. That’s why we’ve built a benefits package designed to support you and your family, both inside and outside of work.

Here, you’ll find more than just a job-you’ll step into a place where your long-term growth is planned and supported through a clear career path and continuous training opportunities that help you evolve with confidence. You can enjoy the freedom of a hybrid working style, complemented by full health and life insurance that brings peace of mind to you and your loved ones. And as an added perk, you’ll benefit from a multisport card.