Director, Software Engineering - Aviation

Viasat, Inc. • Carlsbad, CA

12d • Onsite

About The Position

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.

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.

Requirements

• 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
• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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 This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed