Senior Database Engineer – GSE (Ground Support Engineer)

Position Title:Senior Database Engineer GSE (Ground Support Engineer)
Requisition ID: 1809
Position Location:Sterling Virginia
Position Reports To:Director of Embedded Software Engineering & GSE
Supervises Others:No

At Trident Systems we believe that strong engineering principles are fundamental to driving innovation and solving complex problems. We promote a culture characterized by rigorous engineering practices and a commitment to continuous improvement. This is achieved by leveraging our organizations collective expertise through collaborative development processes which include thorough design and peer reviews. We can deliver innovative high-performance solutions that meet our customers evolving requirements by integrating our specialized knowledge in aerospace electronic systems with appropriately scaled development methodologies.

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.

Position Summary

The Senior 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.

Duties and Responsibilities

• 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.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Computer Engineering Information Systems or related technical discipline or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum of 6 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 systems.
• Experience troubleshooting database-backed applications in operational environments.
• Strong understanding of data integrity transactional systems access control and reliability practices.
• Strong communication documentation and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting manufacturing test automation engineering operations production systems or traceability workflows.
• Experience developing APIs backend applications automation integrations or internal engineering software.
• Familiarity with Python C# Java JavaScript PowerShell or similar development languages.
• Experience with web applications dashboards reporting tools or internal automation systems.
• Experience in aerospace defense electronics manufacturing or high-reliability technical environments.
• Familiarity with ERP PLM MES quality systems or engineering data workflows.
• Experience with cloud-hosted or hybrid database deployments.
• Strong systems thinking and ability to work across software production and engineering domains.

Pay Information

Full-Time Salary Range: $99000 - $185000
Please Note: Actual compensation offered will be determined based on several factors including but not limited to relevant experience skills education certifications internal equity business considerations and geographic location where applicable.

Benefits

Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits including but not limited to:

• Health benefits
  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Basic life with AD&D
  • Short term disability
  • Long term disability
  • Ancillary (Voluntary life with AD&D accident critical illness hospital and pet)
  • Spending accounts (HSA FSA and DCFSA)
• Paid time off
• Holidays
• 401(k) (including company match)
• Tuition reimbursement
• Leaves (Parental maternity and military)
• Annual discretionary bonus (for eligible roles)

Trident Systems reserves the right to change or assign other duties to this position.

Trident Solutions is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws. To request reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process please contact.

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