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:

• Work on and/or lead projects of diverse scope with little instruction
• Grow as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in a technical area
• May develop and deliver technical briefings
• May influence design decisions to align to business needs
• Typically given a well-defined problem/feature, work autonomously with little instruction on day-to-day work
• Identifies opportunities to improve product performance, cost, reliability and security
• Significantly contribute and participate in design, product implementation, test, production, and operations reviews
• Mentor more junior members

• Typically requires 4+ 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 6+ years related experience with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering; or 8+ years related experience without relevant degree
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Math & Computer Science, and/or a related field
• 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 .