Senior Platform Engineer - Boeing Software Factory (BSF)

Boeing • Huntington Beach, CA

1d • Remote

About The Position

Senior Platform Engineer - Boeing Software Factory (BSF) Company: The Boeing Company The Boeing Company is currently seeking a Senior Platform Engineer - Boeing Software Factory to support our Boeing Software Factory Platform team located in St. Louis City, Missouri | Colorado Springs, Colorado | Fairfax, Virginia | Huntington Beach, California | Dallas, Texas. This position will focus on supporting the Enterprise Software Verticals (ESV) organization. Within Boeing’s Software Factory (BSF), the Platform Engineering team designs, builds, and operates secure, scalable, and reliable platform capabilities that accelerate software delivery across programs and business units. This position applies hands-on expertise to design and implement cloud-native platform services, infrastructure automation, and CI/CD pipelines, leveraging modern cloud platform engineering practices to improve software delivery velocity and system resilience. The selected candidate will partner with cross-enterprise security, compliance, and product teams to align platform capabilities with NIST, FedRAMP, and other regulatory frameworks, enabling mission-critical applications to meet stringent performance, reliability, and security requirements. They will collaborate with architects and software teams to standardize patterns, harden runtime environments, and enhance observability across Kubernetes, containerized workloads, and multi-cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure) and on-premises infrastructure. This role includes mentoring engineers, contributing to architectural decisions, and driving continuous improvement in platform reliability, cost efficiency, and operational excellence through automation, infrastructure as code, and robust testing practices. A successful candidate will collaborate with the Software Enterprise to adopt best practices, standards, and initiatives that enable efficient, effective, and high-quality execution across BSF-supported teams. Our teams are currently hiring for a broad range of experience levels including Associate, Experienced and Senior Level Software Engineers. This position has been identified as a virtual opportunity and will not require the selected candidate to relocate.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in large-scale software and system architecture, including distributed systems and cloud-native design with major cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• 5+ years of experience in building platform capabilities using infrastructure as code, Zero-trust architecture, Configuration as Code and cloud security best practices.
• 5+ years of experience in hands on programming and software design background with the ability to strategize, review, design, and deliver robust tools
• 5+ years of experience in mentoring and leading technical teams while fostering a culture of excellence and innovation

Nice To Haves

• 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.
• Knowledge of the practical application of network technologies.
• Ability to solve difficult network problems like Quality of Service, multi-level security, network protocol conversion, network management problems and application optimization.
• Knowledge of software architecture and design methodologies.
• Ability to synthesize software architectures and designs that meet requirements, characteristics and constraints.
• Ability to identify susceptibility, survivability, and vulnerability (S/V) of the systems, subsystems and delivery mechanisms, based on the knowledge of characteristics and capabilities of threats (e.g. protocol exploits, identity spoofing, malware injection techniques, application layer vulnerabilities).

Responsibilities

• Reviews input provided on secure network and protocols throughout the end-to-end lifecycle development of software products.
• Reviews software project management activities and software supplier management functions.
• Leads the design, development, architecture, and maintenance of software solutions for network stack protocol software used to securely exchange data between systems.
• Partners with stakeholders to lead identification and review of product security requirements.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees