Join a cutting-edge aerospace product security team shaping the future of secure flight systems and defense technologies. We’re seeking an experienced and highly skilled security engineering minded software developer to help maintain and continually improve internal tools that support cybersecurity workflows, risk assessments, and technical collaboration. This role emphasizes crafting intuitive, robust solutions that empower engineers and cybersecurity analysts across product lifecycles—balancing usability, availability, compliance, and performance.
You’ll work directly with cybersecurity SMEs, systems engineers, and risk managers to design toolsets that reduce friction, elevate transparency, and accelerate decision-making in product security and governance processes.
Responsibilities- Contribute to internally developed cybersecurity tooling, including the Product Cyber Security Risk Register tooling for Honeywell Aerospace, ensuring performance, scalability, and usability
- Support development and maintenance of custom Jira integrations, enabling seamless collaboration and data flow across risk, compliance, cybersecurity vulnerability tooling, and engineering platforms
- Deliver enterprise-ready tooling that meets high availability and uptime standards
- Collaborate with a globally diverse tooling team that supports 24x7 global operations
- Champion secure software development lifecycle (SSDLC) practices, embedding cybersecurity into code
- Architect and implement scalable software solutions in Java/Groovy and Python, deploying new features and enhancements with agility
- Participate in rotational support ensuring quality tooling customer support, operation and deployment.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across cybersecurity, product engineering, and infrastructure teams to align tooling strategy and evolving business needs
- Improve user experience of internal risk assessment platforms by streamlining interfaces and reducing manual data entry
- Collaborate with data analytics teams to Integrate disparate systems into unified dashboards for tracking product security metrics, vulnerabilities, and mitigations
- Collaborate with cybersecurity leadership and engineering stakeholders to uncover pain points and deliver thoughtful, usable solutions
- Modernize legacy systems and automate compliance-related reporting with high reliability
- Support continuous improvement of cybersecurity tools through user feedback, prototyping, and iteration
- Bachelor’s degree
- 8 years hands-on software development experience in complex, security-sensitive environments
- Experience in Jira deployment, customized workflows, API, and maintenance
- Proficiency in Python for backend, service-layer, and integration development
- Ability to work independently with minimal oversight, while providing technical leadership to a team of developers
- A collaborative mindset and passion for building tools that elevate cybersecurity posture
- Understanding of Agile software development practices
WE VALUE:
- Passion for working with development teams to make more secure, harder to defeat products
- Proven experience building and maintaining custom Jira integrations using REST APIs, webhooks, plugins, or middleware
- Exceptional troubleshooting skills with commitment to availability and quality
- Experience or familiarity with Black Duck Hub, Coverity, or SD Elements
- Familiarity with Groovy scripting
- Familiarity with JQL (Jira Query Language)
- Familiarity with Ansible
- Familiarity with cloud environments. CI/CD tools, containerization, and monitoring solutions
- Familiarity with risk management frameworks (e.g., NIST, ISO 27001)
- Understanding of security by design principles and architecture level security concepts
- Good communication and leadership skills
- Good interpersonal skills with the ability to facilitate diverse groups, help negotiate priorities, and resolve conflicts among project stakeholders
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree
- 8 years hands-on software development experience in complex, security-sensitive environments
- Experience in Jira deployment, customized workflows, APIs, and maintenance
- Proficiency in Python for backend, service-layer, and integration development
- Proficiency in Java for architecting and implementing scalable software solutions
- Ability to work independently with minimal oversight and provide technical leadership
- Understanding of Agile software development practices
- Proven experience building and maintaining custom Jira integrations using REST APIs, webhooks, plugins, or middleware
- Exceptional troubleshooting skills with commitment to availability and quality
- Experience or familiarity with Black Duck Hub, Coverity, or SD Elements
- Familiarity with Groovy scripting
- Familiarity with JQL (Jira Query Language)
- Familiarity with Ansible
- Familiarity with cloud environments, CI/CD tools, containerization, and monitoring solutions
- Familiarity with risk management frameworks (e.g., NIST, ISO 27001)
- Understanding of security by design principles and architecture-level security concepts
- Good communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills
The Aerospace Corporation Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — The 401(k) plan provides a company‑paid contribution of 8–12% based on years of service with immediate eligibility and vesting, and eligible employees can access retiree medical benefits.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off includes 15 vacation days (rising to 20 after five years), nine paid holidays, and unlimited sick time for exempt employees with accruals for non‑exempt staff.
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Flexible Benefits — Flexible work models include a 9/80 schedule with alternating Fridays off, supported by backup care services, an EAP, relocation assistance, and home‑office stipends where applicable.
The Aerospace Corporation Insights
What We Do
The space enterprise has been transformed by rapid change and growth. New vehicles for national security space, a more rapid launch cadence, proliferated satellite constellations, the pursuit of interplanetary exploration, and thriving commercial ventures are changing the nature of the space industry. The Aerospace Corporation (Aerospace) is a leading architect for U.S. space programs, shaping efforts to outpace threats to our national security while cultivating the technologies needed to further this new era of space commercialization and exploration. Aerospace works across the space enterprise in service of the public interest. In addition to supporting the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community, our customers include NASA, NOAA, numerous federal agencies, and commercial space — all of whom benefit from our deep technical knowledge. We only pursue business related to the space mission and complementary fields, operating as the nation’s trusted partner to solve the toughest challenges and develop reliable and innovative technologies. Innovation in space occurs when people have the freedom to imagine and do. At Aerospace, we take pride in our readiness to solve some of the most complex challenges in the space enterprise.
Why Work With Us
We are a non-profit corporation chartered by the government to work on the hardest problems in space. We employ technical experts in every discipline of space-related science and engineering who touch every part of the US space program. Come join us as we make an impact bigger than ourselves.
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