Senior Software Engineer, Kubernetes

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 significant impacts to the 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.

This team owns and maintains the following services: Kubernetes on the MAS platform; AppsKVM w/Kubernetes cluster; Cloud based MAS (cMAS) i.e. Kubernetes development and testing; and Conformance used for monitoring, fixing, logging and testing of the Kubernetes cluster.

• Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME)
• Routinely influences design decisions and resolves issues to align to business needs
• Works on and may lead project of diverse scope
• Provide architecture decisions and integrations that impact multiple products
• Routinely develops and delivers technical briefings
• Collaborate with other teams to define the problem to be solved/feature to be designed, and then works autonomously with little instruction on day-to-day work.
• Demonstrates judgement to obtain relevant and timely results and metrics using appropriate methods and tools.
• May recommend or be involved in evaluating new methodology and influencing its adoption.
• May lead technical design reviews and is effective at communicating technical ideas.
• Helps project leaders make informed decisions by providing technical solutions
• Helps teams enforce and adopt industry standard methodologies
• May work across multiple teams/groups contributing to technical decisions
• Working cross-functionally to obtain new skillsets
• Identifies opportunities to improve product performance, cost, reliability and security
• Participates in design, product implementation, test, production, and operations reviews
• Mentors junior team members

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience and Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Math & Computer Science, and/or a related field.
• Programming experience with different languages such as Python/C/C++/Java/GoLang in a Linux development environment
• Strong proficiency with container technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes
• Technical and software engineering background in the areas of cloud computing, enterprise computing, servers, networking, and virtualization technology and products
• Broad range of technology interests across different disciplines including computer and system architecture, performance analysis, distributed systems design, testing and verification technologies, and networking
• Ability to work on distributed remote agile teams with a high degree of self-motivation and independence
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to drive interaction with customers, peer developers and project managers
• Experience with or eagerness to learn Agile Scrum methodologies, modern software development environments, and DevOps practices
• Experience with Linux, Networking, Systems, and Security
• Travel up to 10%

• Familiarity with running software services at scale
• Experience designing and using RESTful APIs
• Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
• Experience in designing and implementing automated software component and integration tests
• Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with a strong sense of ownership and drive

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.