Database Engineer – GSE; Ground Support Engineering

Position Title: Database Engineer – GSE (Ground Support Engineer)

Requisition : 1895

Position Location: Sterling, VA

Position

Reports To:

Manager, GSE Software Engineering

Supervises Others: No

At Trident Systems Space Electronic Systems (SES) division, we believe in the power of using strong engineering principles to drive innovation and solve complex problems. We foster a culture of rigorous engineering and continuous improvement, leveraging the full knowledge of our organization through collaborative product development processes that include design and peer reviews. We combine our expertise in space electronics with right-sized development processes to create innovative, high-performance space-based electronic systems that meet our customers' evolving needs.

We are a mission partner supporting DoD, Intelligence Community, and Civil space customers. We develop complex, radiation effects mitigated, designs that balance competing requirements in modern space programs, delivering cutting-edge solutions that enable our customers to achieve more in space.

The Database Engineer designs, develops, and maintains database systems that support production automation, engineering operations, manufacturing workflows, hardware traceability, test automation, and internal business processes. This role works closely with software, test, production, quality, and engineering teams to build reliable data infrastructure that enables scalable delivery of aerospace electronics products.

The ideal candidate combines strong database engineering fundamentals with practical software development skills and an understanding of automation-driven engineering environments.

• Design, develop, deploy, and maintain databases supporting production automation, manufacturing workflows, engineering operations, test systems, and product traceability.
• Develop database schemas, data models, relationships, indexing strategies, and data access architectures for internal engineering and production systems.
• Support internal software tools that interface with production and engineering databases.
• Build and maintain APIs, services, or backend integrations that connect automation tools, engineering applications, production systems, and reporting workflows.
• Support collection, storage, retrieval, and analysis of manufacturing, test, telemetry, traceability, and product lifecycle data.
• Optimize database performance, reliability, backup strategies, availability, and long-term maintainability.
• Support data integrity, access control, configuration management, and operational continuity.
• Troubleshoot issues involving application/database interactions, schema design, performance bottlenecks, connectivity, and automation workflows.
• Partner with engineering, production, quality, and software teams to define scalable data workflows and process automation solutions.
• Support migration or integration with enterprise systems where applicable.
• Maintain technical documentation for schemas, interfaces, architecture, deployment, backup, and operational procedures.
• Support off-site work or travel, as needed

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Two (2) or more years of experience designing, developing, and maintaining production or engineering database systems.
• Strong experience with relational database systems such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, or similar platforms.
• Experience with schema design, indexing, normalization, query optimization, backup/recovery, and database performance tuning.
• Experience developing software or backend services that interact with database…