Director, Software Engineering - Aviation
Company: viasat
Location: Carlsbad
Posted on: March 24, 2026
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Job Description:
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 youll 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 youll 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.
Salary range $220,500.00 - $348,500.00 / 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
$274,000.00- $411,000.00/ 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. 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.
Keywords: viasat, La Mirada , Director, Software Engineering - Aviation, IT / Software / Systems , Carlsbad, California
