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.

The team evaluates, designs, develops, implements, and manages security tools for various security-focused teams within the organization, exposing candidates to advanced security technologies such as threat intelligence platforms and detection engineering. Candidates will utilize their skills in evaluation, design, development, implementation, and data analysis to enhance security operations, address security threats proactively, provide detection metrics, and deliver critical security data reporting and metrics to support decision-making and compliance efforts. This work significantly impacts the organization by boosting its cybersecurity posture, improving incident response capabilities, and providing data-driven insights for decision-making, compliance, and reporting, while allowing candidates to collaborate with a diverse range of professionals including Security Operations, Incident Response, Security Engineering, risk management, compliance, and data analytics teams, as well as potentially engaging with board members, auditors, and regulators within the organization.

The work of the team has significant real-world implications as it contributes to improving the organization's cybersecurity posture, detecting and responding to security threats effectively, and providing valuable data-driven insights to support security decision-making, compliance, and reporting requirements.

The candidate will have the opportunity to collaborate with Security Operations-focused teams such as SOC and Threat Hunt, Incident Response personnel, other Security Engineering teams, risk management and compliance professionals.

• Configure, deploy, and maintain SIEM solutions for monitoring network and security events.
• Onboarding data sources, developing new and custom parses, and designing SIEM architecture reviews
• Build out and enhance our logging pipelines around critical data sources to improve our overall IR observability
• Contribute to our detection program by writing advanced detections based on frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK.
• Continuously tune detections to improve our detection fidelity and calibrate signals to maximize value while minimizing noise.

• 2+ years of professional experience.
• Bachelors degree required.
• Possess a proven understanding of SIEM technologies, e.g. Splunk, Google Secops, Azure Sentinel, etc
• Experience with scripting to improve workflows and capabilities (Python & Terraform experience preferred).
• Experience with developing native data ingestion and data normalization integrations to improve observability.
• Able to translate feedback from the business to SIEM technical requirement and solutions.
• US Citizenship required.
• Active US Secret Clearance required.
• Ability to travel 10%.

• Well-developed analytic, qualitative, and quantitative reasoning skills
• Strong communication skills with the ability to switch communication styles when needed between engineering and non-engineering audiences
• Outstanding teamwork across multidiscipline plan-build-run teams.

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.