Software Engineer
Pubblicato il 08-10-2026 - Serco in Roma
Introduction
Serco is a leading Space Services Provider with thousands of skilled resources that has supported over 50 space missions on behalf of more than 10 Space or Government agencies around the globe, including the ESA and NASASerco Italia S.p.A. is one of the top 50 World Space Manufacturing and Service companies with a long history of providing Earth Observation operations, maintenance and front-end services to the European Space Agency. The company also offers vast experience to a huge number of IT and space markets including central governments, defense organizations, the aerospace industry and commercial companies.
On behalf of our team in Italy, we are looking for a Software Engineer to support our Copernicus Sentinel operations, maintenance and coordination activities, and work on a tempo pieno, permanent position with a hybrid working style from our office in Rome. We are seeking a Software Engineer with a development and application-operations mindset, able to support the full lifecycle of our Copernicus EO applications, including dashboards, data pipelines,
operational tools, and user interfaces. The role covers software evolution, deployment support and automation, monitoring, incident/anomaly analysis, documentation, and continuous improvement based on operational feedback. The role also requires practical experience with AI-assisted engineering, using coding agents and generative AI tools to support development, testing, documentation, troubleshooting, and analysis. The candidate should be able to use AI effectively and responsibly, and contribute to AI-enabled features such as automation, data visualization and chatbots.
Duties and responsibilities:
- Design, develop, maintain, and evolve software applications supporting EO service monitoring, reporting, alerting, data visualization and performance analysis.
- Perform corrective and evolutive software maintenance, including troubleshooting, bug fixing, testing, and improvement of existing applic