Senior Software Engineer - Backend Developer
Viasat · Chennai, India · Engineering
About this role
Viasat is hiring a senior-level Backend Engineer in the software engineering function based in Chennai, India. The posting calls out experience with Python, Go, Rust, SQL.
- Role
- Backend Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- senior
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Location
- Chennai, India
- Department
- Engineering
- Posted
- Mar 31, 2026
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Job description
from Viasat careersOne 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 are a capable self-starter, self-motivated software engineer, focused in software development methods including Agile/Scrum. You possess experience in and ability for product development, performing production deployment, managing software in production and developing in virtualization environments. You are familiar with networking & cloud computing concepts. In addition, 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.
Our team members enjoy working closely with each other using an Agile development methodology. Priorities can change quickly, but our team members are able to stay ahead of timelines to delight every one of our customers whether they are internal or external to Viasat.
Travel up to 10%.
The day-to-day
- Ability to work on distributed remote agile teams with a high degree of self-motivation and ability to work independently