Dev Engineer II: Industrial Data & Apps (Python, SQL)

Tyson Foods; United States; On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

The Development Engineer II at Tyson Foods designs, builds, supports, and troubleshoots applications that integrate with industrial platforms, operational data sources, relational databases, and supporting hardware.

You will work across applications, databases, plant-floor interfaces, and infrastructure, collaborating with IT and operations to improve reliability, performance, and security in production systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or related field
• 1+ year of relevant software development experience
• Experience supporting production systems in operational or industrial environments
• Proficiency in at least two programming languages or software development tools
• Experience with SQL Server and MySQL in production environments
• Familiarity with data engineering concepts, DevOps, CI/CD, and version control
• Understanding of industrial data systems, hardware-integrated applications, or plant-floor technologies
• Technical writing and diagramming skills

Responsibilities

• Design, code, debug, and maintain applications using appropriate programming languages, frameworks, and tools
• Deliver medium to high-complexity development or automation tasks as part of a collaborative team
• Develop and maintain SQL Server and MySQL-backed application features, including tables, views, procedures, and functions
• Design data models that support real-time operational needs as well as reporting and analytics
• Perform unit and integration testing and participate in peer code reviews
• Maintain and enhance existing codebases with attention to reliability, performance, and maintainability
• Document program logic, development changes, testing, and corrections using established engineering practices
• Monitor and optimize SQL Server and MySQL for industrial workloads
• Analyze execution plans and data access patterns to resolve performance issues
• Support ingestion and querying of data from Ignition gateways, tags, historians, and event-driven datasets
• Protect production systems by preventing expensive queries from degrading performance
• Participate in incident response related to database latency and data integrity

Skills

Programming languages

SQL Server

MySQL

DevOps / CI/CD

Version control

Industrial data systems

Technical writing

Data engineering concepts

Hardware-integrated apps

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

SQL Server

MySQL

Job description

The Development Engineer II at Tyson Foods designs, builds, supports, and troubleshoots applications that integrate with industrial platforms, operational data sources, relational databases, and supporting hardware.

You will work across applications, databases, plant-floor interfaces, and infrastructure, collaborating with IT and operations to improve reliability, performance, and security in production systems.