Senior Software Engineer

One team. Global challenges. Infinite opportunities. At Viasat, we're on a mission to deliver connections with the capacity to change the world. For more than 35 years, Viasat has helped shape how consumers, businesses, governments and militaries around the globe communicate. We're looking for people who think big, act fearlessly, and create an inclusive environment that drives positive impact to join our team.

This team is focused on providing airline employees as well as the end users with the best in-flight connectivity service. In this position you will be an integral part of the DevOps Commercial Mobility team and make meaningful impacts to the in-flight connectivity service for commercial airline flights that take place every day.

Your responsibilities will range from developing software that is able to scale across multiple commercial airline fleets to creating new products and services to monitoring and maintaining existing services for the commercial airline passenger, flight crew, mechanics, and installers.

Our team aims to develop a common, stable, and secure platform for venue-side applications and services across all verticals within GEM. We achieve this by building and managing an Operating Environment (OE) that encompasses the Operating System and essential host services. In this role, you will:

• Be recognized as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in a technical area
• Routinely influence design decisions and resolves issues to align to business needs
• Work on and lead project of diverse scope with little instruction
• Contribute to architecture decisions and integrations that impact multiple products
• Develop and deliver technical briefings
• Typically works with others to define the problem to be solved/feature to be designed, and then works autonomously with little instruction on day-to-day work
• Demonstrate judgement to obtain relevant and timely results and metrics using appropriate methods and tools
• Recommend or be involved in evaluating new methodology and influencing its adoption
• May mentor junior team members
• Lead technical design reviews and is effective at communicating technical ideas
• Help project leaders make informed decisions by providing technical input
• Help teams adhere to and adopt industry best practices
• Work across multiple teams/groups contributing to technical decisions
• May expand skillsets by becoming knowledgeable in new areas
• Identify opportunities to improve product performance, cost, reliability and security
• Contribute and participate in design, product implementation, test, production, and operations reviews
  
  

• Typically requires 10+ years of related experience with commercial software development in building distributed applications and with a Master's degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering; or 12+ years related experience with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering; or 14+ years related experience without relevant degree
• Experience with Linux systems programming and embedded development
• Experience with programming languages/frameworks: C/C++, Python, Shell Scripting and/or Java
• Experience with development tools: Linux, Amazon Web Services, Git, Artifactory, Jenkins, Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker
• Familiarity with networking: UDP, TCP/IP, AMQP, DHCP, DNS, and/or REST

• Experience with cloud technology, automation, machine learning, big data, and/or Front-end development
• Experience with programming languages/frameworks: Golang, NodeJS, Angular, and/or React

Viasat is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to create a welcoming and diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, genetics, age, or veteran status or any other applicable legally protected status or characteristic. If you would like to request an accommodation on the basis of disability for completing this on-line application, please click .