Rust Job: Software Engineer

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.

Job Responsibilities:

As a Software Development Engineer, you will use and build on a breadth of knowledge including application development, back-end development, automation, cybersecurity, and networking. You will be a member of an interdisciplinary DevOps team building software to automate and provide self-service for the global footprint of our infrastructure products and services! You are a capable self-starter, self-motivated software engineer, well-adapted in software development methods including Agile/Scrum. You are familiar and experienced with systems administration and computer networking. You have experience with requirements analysis, use case & user story analysis, high- and low-level design, implementation and unit test, system integration test, deployment, monitoring, and sustaining product support.

Requirements:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field
• 4+ years of related experience
• Advanced shell scripting and programming in higher-level language (Python, Golang, Rust)
• Knowledge of software engineering practices including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Experience with automated testing frameworks and RESTful web services
• Experience with SQL and NOSQL database technologies
• Linux system administration experience with one of CentOS, Redhat, Ubuntu
• Experience with Infrastructure as code frameworks (Ansible, Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Salt)
• Experience with Continuous integration tools (Jenkins, GitLab, CircleCI, Travis)
• Working knowledge of virtualization (KVM, VMware) and containerization (Kubernetes, Docker) technologies
• Experience with monitoring frameworks (Sensu, DataDog, Splunk, Nagios, Zabbix, CollectD)
• Comfortable working in a collaborative team setting
• Strong analytic, problem-solving, and conceptual skills
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• The ability to travel up to 10%
• US Citizenship

Preferences

• Working understanding of service provider networks
• Experience using public cloud solutions and services (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• International experience, working with distributed teams across multiple time-zones