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Director, Software Engineering - Aviation

Viasat

$220,500 - $411,000
Oct 2, 2025
Carlsbad, CA, US
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Viasat is looking to deliver connections with the capacity to change the world by developing software for edge platforms used in Aviation, delivering connectivity with Viasat’s networks.

Requirements

  • 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
  • Distributed systems, OS, diagnostics and analytics, data, modern programming languages, frameworks, software development, networking, APIs

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.
  • 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.

Other

  • 15+ YoE
  • 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
  • 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