Staff Software Engineer (Python, CI/CD)

At Viasat, the work you do helps people stay connected in ways that matter, from everyday moments to critical missions across air, land, sea, and space.

We’re a place for people who are curious, bold, and motivated by meaningful work. Here, you'll have the opportunity to make an impact, explore new possibilities, and grow your career in ways that align with your interests and goals. When you're ready to take on something new, you'll find leaders who support your development and help you turn your ambition into action.

You will be an integral part of a software scrum team dedicated to creating and scaling our Content Delivery Platform that serves users across the globe helping improve our customer streaming experience.  You will design, implement, and enhance data pipelines, CI/CD pipelines, APIs, agents, monitoring, and onboard content providers.

• Designing and delivering features driving operational excellence and onboarding new customers
• Work in an Agile environment within a talented 5-7 person scrum team
• Utilize and build established CI/CD pipeline and simple infrastructure delivery allowing you to more focus on design and coding of features
• Production support in a DevOps environment 

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Experience with Python, GHA
• Ability to create architectural designs with light input and implement them.
• Experience with a modern development workflow including version control, unit testing, and code reviews
• Strong communication (written and verbal) skills, and ability to work with team members across time zones including the US.
• Dedication to code quality, continuous automation, and operational excellence
• Experience in a DevOps environment - operational support for live services and application frameworks
• Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering or related experience

• Experience with Airflow, Big Query, Kafka
• AWS and GCP related experience
• Exposure to SLOs/SLIs
• Experience with HTTP caching software and services, such as Varnish, Squid, or nginx

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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.