# Software Engineer - Earth Observation Services

About VITO The Environmental Intelligence unit at VITO processes petabytes of Earth Observation (EO) data. We specialize in extracting reliable, actionable information from vast amounts of satellite imagery for customers worldwide. Within this unit, the Copernicus Services team designs, builds and operates end-to-end EO processing chains for vegetation, land cover and agriculture monitoring. We deliver robust, 24/7 operational services to European and international partners such as ECMWF, EEA, ESA, EUMETSAT, FAO and JRC. To strengthen our development capacity, we are looking for an experienced and highly motivated Senior Software Engineer. Your Role at VITO As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a key role in the evolution of our operational EO services. You will participate in: Evolving and hardening our operational EO processing systems Modernizing our stack with cloud-native, scalable architectures Leveraging AI-assisted development tools to increase quality, velocity and maintainability You will work in an agile team of solution architects, developers, EO scientists and operations engineers, helping bridge R&D prototypes into stable, maintainable operational serv

- **Id**: 3725958
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/vito-software-engineer-earth-observation-services>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Turnhout, Belgium
- **Countries**: BE
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-03T16:15:27Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-03T16:15:27Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
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- **Benefits**: Continuous learning
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Earth Observation

## Company

- **Id**: 178485
- **Name**: VITO
- **Domain**: vito.be
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/vito-3>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Technologies

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- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T05:12:45Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: seen:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-05T05:54:30Z

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