Staff Engineer - Reliability, SDLC Governance

Viasat; Carlsbad (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 307,000; Full time

Job summary

Viasat in San Jose, CA is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Reliability Engineering & SDLC Governance to lead quality across the SDLC and live operations. You will drive shift-left testing, observability, and AI-augmented tooling, partnering with multiple teams to raise reliability and customer satisfaction.

This site-based role requires 60%+ in the office and offers a high-impact career with a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration across orgs.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong background in SDLC governance and quality initiatives.
• Customer-focused mindset with emphasis on user experience.

Responsibilities

• Close theOperational Loop: own postmortem and incident reviews with actionable remediation.
• Cross-team technical liaison to align quality initiatives across eng teams.
• Maintain customer-centric accountability by translating tech decisions into user impact.
• Lead continuous improvement by analyzing postmortems and live data.
• Define and report core quality metrics across the lifecycle.
• Own SDLC governance standards and ensure deployment readiness and reliability.

Skills

Software Engineering

SRE

SDLC governance

Quality metrics

DevOps

Observability

Job description

Viasat in San Jose, CA is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Reliability Engineering & SDLC Governance to lead quality across the SDLC and live operations. You will drive shift-left testing, observability, and AI-augmented tooling, partnering with multiple teams to raise reliability and customer satisfaction.

This site-based role requires 60%+ in the office and offers a high-impact career with a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration across orgs.