Senior Software Engineer – Developer
Company:
The Boeing Company
The Boeing Company is currently seeking a Senior Software Engineer – Developer to support our Daybreak team located in Seal Beach, California or El Segundo, California.
This position will focus on supporting the Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) Software Engineering organization.
Join us to build the brain of a mission-critical radar processing ecosystem — the orchestrator that turns tasking inputs into timely, reliable products for customers across industry and defense partners. This is a hands-on, high-impact role where your designs, decisions, and code directly shape how our fleet of applications coordinates, scales, and recovers under pressure. You will work at the intersection of real-time systems, cloud-native engineering, and partner integrations.
Your work will be visible, mission-critical, and continually evolving — we move fast, adopt new tech, and count on nimble engineers to make big things reliable. If you thrive on ownership, complexity, and impact, this is the place to shine.
Position Responsibilities:
- Leads the design, development, test, and maintenance of non-embedded software throughout the end-to-end lifecycle that meets industry, customer, safety, and regulation standards
- Leads review, analysis, and translation of customer requirements into initial design of software products
- Coordinates the development, maintenance, enhancement and optimization of software products and functionalities for systems integrations
- Leads activities to develop, document and maintain architectures, requirements, algorithms, interfaces and designs for software products
- Debugs and leads resolution of issues identified to ensure the reliability and efficiency of software products
- Leads handling of user inquiries, troubleshooting technical issues and user feedback analysis
- Leads research and implementation of current and emerging technologies, tools, frameworks and changes in regulations relevant to software development
- Leads development, establishment, monitoring and improvement of software processes, tools and key performance metrics that align projects with organizational goals and industry benchmarks
- Leads execution and documentation of software research and development projects
- Consults on software domains, system-specific issues, processes and regulations
- Leads software project management activities and software supplier management functions
- Leads tracking and evaluation of software team and supplier performance to ensure product and process compliance to project plans and industry standards
Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):
- Bachelor’s degree
- Active Top Secret/SCI Clearance
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering
- Experience in DevOps tools like; Git, Jenkins, or CI/CD
**Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience): **
- Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited course of study in engineering, engineering technology (includes manufacturing engineering technology), chemistry, physics, mathematics, data science, or computer science and 9+ years of related work experience OR Bachelor’s Degree and 13+ years of directly related work experience OR 17+ years of related, relevant experience
- 2+ years’ experience in Python/C++ programming on full stack software projects/programs
- Experience with AWS, AWS Lambdas, Docker, Kubernetes
- Experience developing and maintaining REST APIs and interfaces
- Experience with practices such as test-driven development (TDD), agile software development, continuous integration, and dependency management is preferred.
- Experience with satellite ground mission capabilities, products, and/or customers
- Experience with DevSecOps and continuous integration (CI/CD, Jenkins, GitLab)
Drug Free Workplace:
Boeing is a Drug Free Workplace where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies.
CodeVue Coding Challenge:
To be considered for this position you will be required to complete a technical assessment as part of the selection process. Failure to complete the assessment will remove you from consideration.
**Pay & Benefits: **
At Boeing, we strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract, engage and retain the top talent. Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.
The Boeing Company also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.
The specific programs and options available to any given employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.
Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.
Summary Pay Range: $171,700 - $232,300
Language Requirements:
Not Applicable
Education:
Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent
Relocation:
This position offers relocation based on candidate eligibility.
Export Control Requirement:
This is not an Export Control position.
Safety Sensitive:
This is not a Safety Sensitive Position.
Security Clearance:
This position requires an active U.S. Top Secret/SCI Security Clearance (U.S. Citizenship Required). (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active)
Visa Sponsorship:
Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.
Contingent Upon Award Program
This position is not contingent upon program award
Shift:
Shift 1 (United States of America)
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