Software Engineer (Associate or Experienced)

Boeing • Seal Beach, CA

5d • $106,250 - $182,850 • Onsite

About The Position

The Boeing Company is hiring an Associate or Experienced Software Engineer (Developer) for the Experimental Systems Group Telemetry & Command Database team in Seal Beach, California. The team develops and sustains telemetry and command databases that connect spacecraft, flight-test systems, ground systems, laboratories, and mission operations. These databases turn complex system interfaces into usable data products that help engineers and operators understand system performance, issue commands, and make decisions during integration, testing, and operations.

The engineer will work across software, databases, hardware interfaces, and mission operations to define how telemetry and command data is modeled, validated, accessed, distributed, and maintained. The role collaborates with systems engineers, flight software developers, test engineers, database specialists, and operations teams to translate interface control documents and mission requirements into reliable, high-performance software and data solutions. The position is expected to be 100% onsite at a listed location option and may require up to 10% travel. It requires an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance and U.S. citizenship. Candidates must also complete a technical assessment as part of selection.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher (the education section also specifies a bachelor’s degree or equivalent).
• At least 1 year of software development experience using Java, C++, or Python.
• At least 1 year of experience working in an Agile development environment.
• At least 1 year of experience with relational databases such as SQL Server, Oracle, or Teradata.
• Experience with Linux and Windows development.
• Active U.S. Top Secret security clearance; U.S. citizenship is required. A clearance active within the past 24 months is considered active.
• Must meet U.S. export control compliance requirements as a U.S. Person.
• Must satisfy the Company’s Conflict of Interest assessment process.
• Must complete the required technical assessment as part of selection.
• Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.

Nice To Haves

• For Level 3: 5 or more years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• For Level 3, a bachelor of science degree in engineering, engineering technology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, data science, or computer science and 5 or more years of related work experience; or a bachelor’s degree and 9 or more years of directly related work experience; or 13 or more years of related, relevant experience.
• Experience developing software or database solutions for telemetry, command, flight-test, spacecraft, aerospace, defense, or other mission-critical systems.
• Experience designing data models for complex engineering or operational data.
• Experience with SQL optimization, indexing, query planning, schema migrations, stored procedures, views, constraints, and transaction management.
• Experience developing REST APIs, data-access services, command-line utilities, ETL workflows, or automation scripts.
• Experience with ORMs, NoSQL databases, data-validation frameworks, CI/CD, containerization, or deployment automation.
• Experience modeling data involving units, calibrations, limits, enumerations, bit fields, packet structures, command parameters, and versioned metadata.
• Familiarity with automated data-quality checks, schema validation, regression testing, observability, and data-performance metrics.
• Knowledge of software architecture, requirements derivation and traceability, configuration management, change control, verification and validation, and full-lifecycle software development.
• Knowledge of host environments, operating systems, networks, software integration, and troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with software development and testing tools, including compilers, linkers, debuggers, data-analysis tools, requirements-management tools, and post-processing applications.
• Knowledge of software systems and products that influence architecture, interfaces, integration, and test approaches, including aircraft, missile, space, airborne, shipboard, and ground-support systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain telemetry and command database schemas, dictionaries, metadata, and supporting software tools.
• Translate interface control documents, system specifications, and engineering requirements into robust data models.
• Define and manage data attributes, including identifiers, naming conventions, data types, units, limits, calibrations, enumerations, packet structures, command parameters, and relationships.
• Develop services, APIs, scripts, and pipelines to ingest, transform, validate, version, publish, and distribute telemetry and command definitions.
• Support consistent propagation of approved data definitions across development, integration, laboratory, test, and operational environments.
• Implement automated data-quality checks for completeness, naming conflicts, invalid units, range violations, referential integrity, incompatible changes, and other schema or metadata issues.
• Design and maintain relational database structures, queries, views, constraints, indexes, migrations, and data-access patterns.
• Develop and optimize software that reads, writes, transforms, and presents database information through batch and real-time workflows, APIs, and integration services.
• Support database performance, reliability, and scalability through query optimization, indexing, transaction management, caching, and effective schema design.
• Develop unit, integration, regression, and data-validation tests for database-backed applications and services.
• Troubleshoot database and data-pipeline issues, including failed jobs, migration errors, data inconsistencies, performance problems, and discrepancies between environments.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, automated builds and deployments, database migrations, configuration management, code reviews, and technical documentation.
• Collaborate with systems engineers, flight software developers, test engineers, database specialists, and mission operations personnel.
• Participate in Agile planning, technical reviews, process improvement, and evaluation of technologies that improve data quality, observability, maintainability, and operational performance.

Benefits

• Eligible employees may enroll in benefit programs generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance, and programs providing paid and unpaid time away from work.
• Boeing 401(k) plan with dollar-for-dollar matching contributions up to 10% of eligible pay, with immediate 100% vesting.
• Student Loan Match through the Boeing 401(k) for eligible enrolled U.S. employees.
• Competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level