Viasat Tech Stack
Multi-orbit satellite connectivity and managed services for defense, aviation, and remote operations
Viasat operates a legacy hardware-and-software stack rooted in FPGA/VHDL design (Xilinx, Vivado, Mentor Graphics) alongside enterprise networking (Cisco, LTE, WiMAX), now actively adopting cloud-native infrastructure—Terraform, Ansible, GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Helm—and generative AI tooling (OpenAI, GitHub Copilot). The hiring mix skews heavily engineering (388 roles) with pockets of security (32) and data platform specialists, while active projects center on threat intelligence automation, embedded Linux terminals, and GitOps infrastructure, suggesting a multi-year transition from monolithic satellite systems toward modular, software-defined architectures. Pain points around field issue recurrence and configuration management maturity indicate operational friction at scale.
Tech Stack 200 technologies
What Viasat Is Building
◆Challenges
- Improving security
- Preventing field issue recurrence
- Ensuring compliance with government regulations
- Field issues
- Improving optimization runtime efficiency
- Scalable solution delivery
- Adopt configuration management practices
- Maturing configuration management capability
- Removing friction
- Maintaining high availability
▲Active Projects
- Manage threat intelligence lifecycle
- Automated script development
- New generation of software architecture
- Embedded satellite terminal software development
- Gitops infrastructure maintenance
- External threat surface monitoring
- Embedded linux application development
- Proof of concepts for incremental delivery
- Seamless management of networking and cybersecurity products and emerging cryptographic solutions
- Ai/ml data infrastructure
Hiring Activity
Department
Seniority
Notable leadership hires: HR Lead, Data Platform Lead, Chief Security Officer, Spectrum Strategy Lead, Capacity Planning Director
