Software Engineer

Viasat

Boston, MA

Full Time

Senior

136k-214k

2 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

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.

Key Responsibilities

Design, implement, and enhance new and existing APIs and microservices that manage content provider's metadata and generate information used to maximize Viasat's bandwidth used.
Designing and delivering features bi-weekly to help manage streaming content.
Work in an Agile environment within a talented 3-7 person scrum team.
Utilize established CI/CD pipeline and simple infrastructure delivery allowing you to more focus on design and coding of features.
Provide production support in a DevOps environment.

Requirements

5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
Experience with Object Oriented Development.
Experience with REST APIs, APIs as products, the API lifecycle, and API management.
Experience with a modern development workflow including version control, unit testing, functional testing and code reviews.
Strong communication (written and verbal) skills, and ability to work with remote team members across time zones.
Dedication to code quality, continuous automation, and operational excellence.
Experience in a DevOps environment - operational support for live services and application frameworks.
BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering or related experience.
Ability to travel up to 10%.
US Citizenship required.

Nice to Have

Experience with Python and Falcon.
AWS related experience: RDS, DynamoDB, SQS.
Exposure to working with lots of data and querying it efficiently.
Knowledge of design patterns, UML, and microservices architecture.
Exposure to container and orchestration platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes.
Exposure to logging/monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.
Exposure to SLOs/SLIs.
Experience with HLS or DASH protocol.

Qualifications

BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering or related experience.

Benefits & Perks

Salary range $135,500.00 - $214,000.00 annually.
For specific work locations within San Jose, the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, the base pay range is $168,500.00 - $252,500.00 annually.
Additional cash or stock incentives may be provided.
Range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position offered.
Learn more about Viasat's comprehensive benefit offerings at https://careers.viasat.com/benefits.

Working at Viasat

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.

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