Software Engineer (Associate or Experienced)

Software Engineer (Associate or Experienced) ## Company The Boeing Company ## The Boeing Company has an exciting opportunity for a Software Engineer (Developer)to join the Experimental Systems Group Telemetry & Command Database team in Seal Beach, CA. Our teams are currently hiring for a broad range of experience levels including; Associate and Experienced Software Engineers.

This role is ideal for a software engineer who enjoys working close to hardware and mission operations, cares about data correctness and performance, and wants to grow into a domain expert in spacecraft/flight test telemetry and command systems. This team develops and sustains the data backbone that connects spacecraft, flight-test systems, ground systems, laboratories, and mission operations.

Our telemetry and command databases transform complex system interfaces into trusted, usable data products - enabling engineers and operators to understand system performance, send the right commands, and make informed decisions throughout integration, test, and operations.

This is an excellent opportunity for a software engineer who enjoys working at the intersection of software, databases, hardware interfaces, and mission operations. The successful candidate will help define how telemetry and command data is modeled, validated, accessed, distributed, and maintained across multiple environments.

The selected candidate will work closely with systems engineers, flight software developers, test engineers, database specialists, and operations teams to turn interface control documents and mission requirements into reliable, high-performance software and data solutions. ## Position Responsibilities - Designs, develops, tests, and maintains telemetry and command database schemas, dictionaries, metadata, and supporting software tools - Translates interface control documents, system specifications, and engineering requirements into robust data models - Defines and manages data attributes such as identifiers, naming conventions, data types, units, limits, calibrations, enumerations, packet structures, command parameters, and relationships - Develops services, APIs, scripts, and pipelines to ingest, transform, validate, version, publish, and distribute telemetry and command definitions - Supports the consistent propagation of approved data definitions across development, integration, laboratory, test, and operational environments - Implements automated data-quality checks for completeness, naming conflicts, invalid units, range violations, referential integrity, incompatible changes, and other schema or metadata issues - Designs and maintains relational database structures, queries, views, constraints, indexes, migrations, and data-access patterns - Develops and optimizes software that reads, writes, transforms, and presents database information through batch and real-time workflows, APIs, and integration services - Supports database performance, reliability, and scalability through query optimization, indexing, transaction management, caching, and effective schema design - Develops 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 - Contributes to CI/CD pipelines, automated builds, deployments, database migrations, configuration management, code reviews, and technical documentation - Collaborates with systems engineers, flight software developers, test engineers, database specialists, and mission operations personnel - Participates in Agile planning, technical reviews, process improvement, and the evaluation of technologies that improve data quality, observability, maintainability, and operational performance ## Security Clearance This position requires an active U.S.

Top Secret Security Clearance (U.S. Citizenship Required). (A U.S.

Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active) ## Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience) - Bachelor’s Degree or higher - 1+ years’ experience in software development using either Java, C++, or Python - 1+ years’ experience operating in an Agile development environment - 1+ years' experience with Relational Databases such as SQL-Server, Oracle, Teradata - Experience with Linux and windows development ## Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience) - Level 3: 5 or more years’ related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience - 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 5+ years of related work experience OR Bachelor’s Degree and 9+ years of directly related work experience OR 13+ 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 ## Conflict of Interest Successful candidates for this job must satisfy the Company's Conflict of Interest (COI) assessment process. ## Work Location This position is expected to be 100% onsite.

The selected candidate will be required to work onsite at one of the listed location options. ## Travel Position may require travel up to 10% of the time. ## CodeVue Coding Challenge To be considered for this position you will be required to complete a technical assessment as part of the selection process.

Failure to complete the assessment will remove you from consideration. ## Drug Free Workplace Boeing is a Drug Free Workplace where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies . ## Total Rewards At Boeing, we strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract, engage and retain the top talent.

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. T