Software Engineer (Associate or Experienced)

The Boeing Company has an exciting opportunity for a Software Engineer to join the Space Intelligence and Weapons Systems (SI&WS) Daybreak team in Kent, WA.

In this role, you will dive into both legacy and modern codebases to craft reproducible, testable, and containerized processing pipelines that power mission-critical analysis running at scale on AWS.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain end-to-end signal-processing software: ingest raw sensor data, run focusing, motion compensation, calibration, and produce analysis/feature outputs
• Invent and implement new processing capabilities from algorithm prototype to production-ready code, collaborating with scientists and stakeholders to define requirements and acceptance criteria
• Analyze, read, and refactor legacy C, C++, and Fortran code; create Python wrappers or re-implement modules natively in Python where it improves readability, testability, or performance
• Build reproducible, containerized processing artifacts (Docker) and package deployments (Helm charts or equivalent) for development, staging, and production
• Author and maintain comprehensive automated tests: unit, regression, integration, and end-to-end system tests, including numerical validation against golden datasets and defined tolerances
• Lead system-level integration and cross-team end-to-end testing with internal and external partners: define test plans, coordinate test events, exercise interfaces (ingest, metadata, telemetry, archive), capture anomalies, and drive remediation to closure
• Define, curate, and maintain representative test datasets, golden outputs, and validation harnesses to support continuous integration and acceptance testing
• Integrate CI/CD pipelines to automate builds, testing (including E2E integration tests) and deployments; gate releases with numerical and interface checks
• Profile and optimize performance of processing chains; quantify tradeoffs between accuracy and runtime and implement targeted optimizations
• Implement observability and telemetry for batch and service workflows: metrics, logging, and traces that support automatic detection of regressions and rapid incident triage
• Troubleshoot numerical, runtime, and interface failures; perform root cause analysis and implement preventive measures and regression tests
• Produce clear developer and operator documentation, reproducible examples, runbooks, and onboarding materials for product teams and external partners
• Mentor teammates on legacy-code practices, numerical validation, and robust testing patterns; contribute to team culture of quality, reproducibility, and collaboration
• Ensure security and compliance controls are integrated into the delivery pipeline and runtime environments

Basic Qualifications:

• An active U.S. Top Secret Security Clearance
• Bachelor’s Degree or higher
• 1+ years software development experience
• Professional experience with C, C++, C#, Python, Java, or Ada

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with serverless or container orchestration
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools
• Prior exposure to regulated, safety-critical, or aerospace environments
• Understanding of delivery and reliability metrics (DORA or equivalent) and a desire to instrument and improve them
• Experience troubleshooting and incident response mindset for production systems
• Clear communication skills and willingness to support teams and present to stakeholders and customers
• 1+ years’ hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS or equivalent)
• 1+ years’ practical experience with containerization
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code concepts and at least introductory experience with tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK
• Basic experience with CI/CD systems

Benefits:

• Competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities
• Health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs
• Paid and unpaid time away from work

Salary Range:

• Associate level (Level 2): USD $106,250 – $143,750
• Experienced level (Level 3): USD $135,150 – $182,850