Software Engineer - All Levels

Job Description

Thank you for your interest in BAE Systems! This opening is for candidates who are attending our March C4ISR Systems Engineering Discovery Hour and interested in exploring positions! Positions will be located at our San Diego, CA, location. If your background and skill set match our hiring needs, we will reach out with next steps. If selected for an interview, specific opportunities based on your interests and skill set will be discussed with the hiring team. For candidates not local to the San Diego, CA, area, virtual interviews will be accommodated.

Are you a Software Engineer with 2 to 20+ years of experience looking for the next step to grow your career? Do you want to design and write software that really matters and be a part of a cause greater than yourself? Then, help us protect those that protect us by developing next generation electronic systems products and solutions. We need your talent, motivation, and vision to join our growing teams. BAE Systems has recently been awarded new programs and is currently undergoing an exciting period of growth.

Come see what you’re missing. Our employees work on the world’s most advanced systems – Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) Systems. You'll help develop systems that sense, control, exploit and disseminate actionable information to warfighters supporting a variety of missions. Spanning air, land, sea, and space, we are developing the technology of tomorrow, delivered today. Drawing strength from our differences, we’re innovating for the future. And you can, too.

Our flexible work environment provides you a chance to change the world without giving up your personal life. We put our customers first – exemplified by our mission: “We Protect Those Who Protect Us®.” Sound like a team you want to be a part of? Come build your career with BAE Systems.

At BAE Systems, we promote a strong, collaborative culture and provide our employees with the tools, skills and training they need to succeed and grow. We are all about trust, camaraderie, and a shared ambition to lead the world in defense technologies and national security services. When you join our engineering group, you will be an integrated team member collaborating with Systems, Hardware, and Test engineers in one or more of the phases of software development: Requirements Development, Design, Coding, Integration and Testing.

BAE Systems offers competitive pay, benefits, and important work-life balance initiatives:

• Every other Friday Off
• Flexible work schedule
• Leave Options – including vacation and paid time off, Jury duty, military leave, paid parental leave, and bereavement leave
• 401(k) Matching at 6%
• Continuous learning through localized workshops, training, events, and Tuition Assistance

BAE believes in a culture of recognition for the extraordinary contributions of our skilled employees. Our engineers are the lifeblood of our company and we’re more than 5,000 strong. With our robust offering of educational and career development opportunities, your chances to grow are limitless.

Typical duties include (based on experience):

• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary engineering team to design, code, and test new software in a rapid development environment to integrate, deploy, and support large, complex systems.
• Debug and integrate challenging systems designed in a multi-threaded, distributed application environment, and defining and developing significant features and upgrades to a complex, enterprise System
• Design, write and deliver Infrastructure as Code software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of the network
• Build automated DevOps pipelines using tools such as GitLab and Azure DevOps and deploy applications on Kubernetes clusters

Because of the need for consistent, in-person collaboration and/or the requirement to perform all work onsite due to the nature of this particular role, it will be performed full-time on site. This means work will be conducted on location at a BAE Systems facility 100% of the time.

*In some situations a hybrid work format, with time split between working onsite and remotely can be considered.

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Required Education, Experience, & Skills

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field, and minimum of 2 years work experience or equivalent experience
• Proficient utilizing modern programming languages (e.g., Java, C++)
• Current Secret security clearance (active within 2 years)
• Experience developing RESTful microservices using Java and Spring Boot
• Experience using various DevSecOps tools and Cloud technologies
• Experience with software engineering processes, methodologies, and tools

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills

• Hold an active Top Secret or Top Secret/SCI clearance
• Strong software architecture, design, and development experience using Java and RESTful services.
• Experience using DevSecOps tools such as GitLab, GitOps, Bitbucket, CI/CD Pipelines, Docker, Fortify, Sonarqube, Chef/Ansible, Terraform, Nexus
• Experience with Cloud technologies such as Rancher, Kubernetes, Argo CD, Argo Workflow, Helm, Terraform, Jenkins, Chef, Service Mesh
• Experience with database design and development processes
• Experience with Agile software development
• Experience with Kafka, Elasticsearch, Redis
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, VMware, Azure and Certification in a cloud technology such as AWS Certification
• Experience using SQL with RDMBS like Oracle
• Scripting and other languages (e.g., sh, csh, bash, ksh, make, imake, XML, HTML, CSS, and/or PERL)
• Development tools and services (e.g., Eclipse, Spring Framework, JBoss, Apache, Tomcat, Maven, Ant and/or automated test tools)
• User Interface development tools for the JEE stack

Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $95106 - $161680

Please note: This range is based on our market pay structures. However, individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience.

Employee Benefits: At BAE Systems, we support our employees in all aspects of their life, including their health and financial well-being. Regular employees scheduled to work 20+ hours per week are offered: health, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts; a 401(k) savings plan; disability coverage; and life and accident insurance. We also have an employee assistance program, a legal plan, and other perks including discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance. Our leave programs include paid time off, paid holidays, as well as other types of leave, including paid parental, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave. Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards. Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.
About BAE Systems Electronic Systems BAE Systems, Inc. is the U.S. subsidiary of BAE Systems plc, an international defense, aerospace and security company which delivers a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions and customer support services. Improving the future and protecting lives is an ambitious mission, but it’s what we do at BAE Systems. Working here means using your passion and ingenuity where it counts – defending national security with breakthrough technology, superior products, and intelligence solutions. As you develop the latest technology and defend national security, you will continually hone your skills on a team—making a big impact on a global scale. At BAE Systems, you’ll find a rewarding career that truly makes a difference. Electronic Systems (ES) is the global innovator behind BAE Systems’ game-changing defense and commercial electronics. Exploiting every electron, we push the limits of what is possible, giving our customers the edge and our employees opportunities to change the world. Our products and capabilities can be found everywhere – from the depths of the ocean to the far reaches of space. At our core are more than 14,000 highly talented Electronic Systems employees with the brightest minds in the industry, we make an impact – for our customers and the communities we serve.