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Platform Engineer (Experienced or Senior)
Boeing Company · 🇺🇸 USA - Berkeley, MO
Sponsorship verdict
Posting rules out sponsorship
The posting rules out sponsorship or requires citizenship/clearance.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 72 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 7 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Boeing Company paid sponsored hires in similar roles11 certified filings for “Mechanical System Design & Analysis Engineer” (Mechanical Engineers) in WA: $135k–$170k, median $143k. Most were filed at wage level IV (100%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Security clearance mentionedFrom the posting’s own wording.
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 72 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 7 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Platform Engineer (Experienced or Senior) Company: The Boeing Company The Boeing Company has an exciting opportunity for a Platform Engineer (Experienced or Senior) to join Boeing Defense, Space & Security in Berkeley, MO . This role focuses on platform engineering, build automation, legacy systems support, and cloud modernization in support of mission-critical engineering and software development environments. You will help maintain and modernize internal engineering tools, build systems, and automation workflows in support of a secure, cloud-based infrastructure environment. In this role, you will work closely with software developers, mission systems engineers, and other technical stakeholders to improve developer productivity, streamline release processes, and enable reliable software delivery across the program. The ideal candidate is a strong technical problem solver with experience in software development, infrastructure automation, and cloud engineering. This position requires a hands-on engineer who can support legacy environments while helping improve tools, pipelines, and deployment infrastructure across the program. Position Responsibilities: • Lead platform engineering efforts in support of mission-critical software development and delivery environments • Maintain, troubleshoot, and refactor legacy internal engineering tools, build scripts, and automation utilities • Design and develop custom software tools and automation solutions to support engineering workflows and program needs • Support and improve secure, cloud-based infrastructure environments used by the program • Architect, provision, and maintain infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code practices • Modernize legacy build and release processes into secure, repeatable CI/CD workflows • Containerize legacy applications, build tools, and dependencies to improve reproducibility and consistency • Work closely with software developers to improve local development environments and remove build bottlenecks • Collaborate with mission systems engineers and other technical stakeholders to support platform stability and engineering efficiency • Apply analytical problem-solving skills to resolve infrastructure, tooling, and build-related issues • Document engineering practices and platform processes to support replication, scaling, and continuous improvement • Provide technical leadership and guidance to junior engineers as needed This position is expected to be 100% onsite. The selected candidate will be required to work onsite in Berkeley, MO. Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/ Experience): • This position requires the ability to obtain a US Security Clearance for which the US Government requires US Citizenship as a condition of employment (An interim and/or final U.S. Secret Clearance Post-Start may be required) • Bachelor's Degree • 3+ years of experience with programming in C, C++ or C# • Experience with scripting, particularly in shell scripting in sh and csh variants, Bash, Python, and PERL • 1+ years of experience with AWS Services, E.g. VPC, IAM, EC2, Auto-scaling, ELB, ECR, S3, DynamoDB, Postgres (RDS), Lambda, SQS, SNS, RDS, VPC, Route 53, Cloud Front, Cloud Watch, AWS Config, Cloudtrail, AWS Developer Tools etc. • Experience with Terraform,, Jenkins, Git, and Ansible, Cloud formation, etc. • Experience with build and test tools such as (or similar to) BoostBuild, BoostTest, CMake, and Make Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience): • Level 4 : 9 or more years’ related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience • Ability to troubleshoot and support legacy engineering tools, build scripts, and automation workflows • Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docke