Director, Software Engineering - Aviation

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Director, Software Engineering - Aviation Carlsbad, California; Germantown, Maryland 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 you'll 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

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