Senior Software Engineer – Developer
About The Position
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.
Requirements
- 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
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 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)
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
Benefits
- health insurance
- flexible spending accounts
- health savings accounts
- retirement savings plans
- life and disability insurance programs
- paid and unpaid time away from work
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
