Senior Software Engineer – Developer

Job Description

At Boeing, we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. We’re committed to fostering an environment for every teammate that’s welcoming, respectful and inclusive, with great opportunity for professional growth. Find your future with us.

Senior Software Engineer – Developer

Location:

Seal Beach, California or El Segundo, California.

This position focuses on supporting the Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) Software Engineering organization by building a mission‑critical radar processing ecosystem—an orchestrator that turns tasking inputs into timely, reliable products for customers across industry and defense partners. It’s a hands‑on, high‑impact role where designs, decisions, and code directly shape how our fleet of applications coordinates, scales, and recovers under pressure.

Your work will be visible, mission‑critical, and continually evolving—Boeing moves fast, adopts 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.

• 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.

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Active Top Secret/SCI Clearance.
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Experience in Dev Ops tools like Git, Jenkins, or CI/CD.

• Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited course of study in engineering, engineering technology (including 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 Dev Sec Ops  and continuous integration (CI/CD, Jenkins, Git Lab).

At Boeing, we strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract, engage and retain the top talent, including competitive base pay, variable compensation opportunities, health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and paid and unpaid time away from work.

Summary Pay Range: $171,700 - $232,300

Applications for this position will be accepted…