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About us

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.

What you'll do

You will provide strategic direction and leadership for the definition, development of software for edge platforms used in Aviation, delivering connectivity with Viasat’s networks. You will manage the engineering teams, manage the tradeoffs, and find the best solution to meet market needs. You will own schedule, cost, performance, and quality. Your teams will find innovative ways to delight customers and adopt new technology to deliver better and faster.

The day-to-day

• Drive the engineering design, development, maintenance for Viasat’s edge platform software for aviation.
• Oversee distributed systems architecture, service orchestration, technology choices. Manage application lifecycle and tech debt. Maintain guidelines for CI/CD, testing and automation, observability, and infrastructure as code.
• Develop high-performance software optimized for a constrained hardware environment. 
• Mentor and guide engineers and technical leads, develop engineering talent, foster a culture of innovation, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure effective resource allocation, risk mitigation, and timely delivery within budget. Maintain exacting standards, measured through metrics, for reliability, security, and customer satisfaction.
• Find emerging trends in cloud-native technologies, Kubernetes, platform engineering, evaluate and incorporate advances that drive platform capability and efficiency.
• Drive transformation to increase velocity (time to market), quality, and reliability. Boost quality significantly in measurable ways (internal and customer measurements).
• Collaborate multi-functionally with the Software Architecture team to establish and advocate for engineering standards, improve deployment and scaling strategies, and expedite the delivery of impactful solutions.

What you'll need

• 15+ YoE
  
• Demonstrated success
  • Developing, and delivering secure software solutions for complex highly scalable systems for customer venues with hardware
  • Must have developed high-performance software optimized for a resource constrained hardware environment like a single server
  • Leading and developing a globally distributed team of 50+ highly capable engineers
  • Delivering at quality, with cost and schedule efficiency with a rapidly evolving roadmap
• Expertise
  • Distributed systems, OS, diagnostics and analytics, data, modern programming languages, frameworks, software development, networking, APIs
  • Strong written and oral communication skills to persuade through influence
  • Analytical skills, and the ability and willingness to dig into details to get to the right answers

What will help you on the job

• Please note that this is an on-site role located at one of our campuses in Carlsbad, CA or Germantown, MD.
• Only apply if you have valid work authorization in the US and will not require company sponsored work authorization in the future.

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Salary range
$221,000.00 - $349,000.00 / annually.For specific work locations within San Jose, the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, the base pay range for this role is $275,000.00- $412,000.00/ annually
At Viasat, we consider many factors when it comes to compensation, including the scope of the position as well as your background and experience. Base pay may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Additional cash or stock incentives may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position offered. Learn more about Viasat's comprehensive benefit offerings that are focused on your holistic health and wellness at https://careers.viasat.com/benefits.
EEO Statement

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 here.

Qualifications:

• 15+ YoE
  
• Demonstrated success
  • Developing, and delivering secure software solutions for complex highly scalable systems for customer venues with hardware
  • Must have developed high-performance software optimized for a resource constrained hardware environment like a single server
  • Leading and developing a globally distributed team of 50+ highly capable engineers
  • Delivering at quality, with cost and schedule efficiency with a rapidly evolving roadmap
• Expertise
  • Distributed systems, OS, diagnostics and analytics, data, modern programming languages, frameworks, software development, networking, APIs
  • Strong written and oral communication skills to persuade through influence
  • Analytical skills, and the ability and willingness to dig into details to get to the right answers

Education:UNAVAILABLEEmployment Type: FULL_TIME