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Saildrone | Multiple Roles | Hybrid in Alameda, CA or Washington, DC | US only, no visas

Saildrone is on a mission to help scientists and sailors better understand the ocean and everything in it, to preserve a healthy ocean and a safe, sustainable planet. We make autonomous sailing robots that travel the oceans, measuring almost everything they can find along the way. Think of them as floating maritime tricorders. Saildrones have discovered new underwater mountains[1], circumnavigated Antarctica[2], and even traveled right through hurricanes[3]!

The company is growing a lot in the next year as we expand our business both domestically and internationally. We've got openings on multiple teams (including my Security group) and will be opening more throughout the year. If you don't see the right fit today, keep checking back in future "Who's Hiring?" posts!

* Sr. Software Engineer, Data: https://careers.jobscore.com/careers/saildrone/jobs/senior-s...

* Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Data [REMOTE OK]: https://careers.jobscore.com/careers/saildrone/jobs/senior-s...

* Software Engineer, Platform: https://careers.jobscore.com/careers/saildrone/jobs/software...

* Software Engineer, Security: https://careers.jobscore.com/careers/saildrone/jobs/software... <-- this one's mine, ask away

* Staff Site Reliability Engineer: https://careers.jobscore.com/careers/saildrone/jobs/staff-si...

* Staff Software Engineer, Perception: https://careers.jobscore.com/careers/saildrone/jobs/staff-so...

* Technical Operations Engineer: https://careers.jobscore.com/careers/saildrone/jobs/technica...

[1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/climate/article/underwater-mount...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20190809011553/https://www.bloom...

[3] https://www.wfla.com/weather/tracking-the-tropics/watch-sail... and https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/saildrone-hurricane/2024/mission-b...

Comment · 2 years ago
Saildrone | Software Engineer(s), Security | Hybrid in Alameda, CA or Washington, DC | US only, no visas

Saildrone is on a mission to help scientists and sailors better understand the ocean and everything in it, to preserve a healthy ocean and a safe, sustainable planet. We make autonomous sailing robots that travel the oceans, measuring almost everything they can find along the way. Think of them as floating maritime tricorders. Saildrones have discovered new underwater mountains[1], circumnavigated Antarctica[2], and even traveled right through hurricanes[3]!

We are expanding our Security team with two software engineers to help cover a wide array of needs: building security services, helping other teams assess the security of their own work, running pentests and tabletops, teaching security classes, and working with auditors to prove we do all the above. You read that right - we do SWENG, APPSEC, OFFSEC, SECED, and GRC all at the same time! I can guarantee you'll never get bored.

I've listed two positions, but we're flexible on levels for the right candidates:

* Software Engineer: https://careers.jobscore.com/careers/saildrone/jobs/software...

* Senior Software Engineer: https://careers.jobscore.com/careers/saildrone/jobs/senior-s...

[1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/climate/article/underwater-mount...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20190809011553/https://www.bloom...

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20230609092913/https://www.nytim... and https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/saildrone-hurricane2021/index.html

Comment · 3 years ago
It's still popular in certain corporate settings, where you're dealing with workflows that don't have easy support for FIDO2. For example, certain embedded browsers for logging in to VPNs.
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I'm surprised no one has said "PowerPoint" yet. LibreOffice and Google Slides are nowhere close. Animations, theming, diagramming tools... I run an Ubuntu laptop and have been missing PowerPoint so much I tried to get a Windows VM for it. Couldn't get graphics support in VirtualBox working correctly :(
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We absolutely are! Our list of open positions is on our website: https://www.viasat.com/careers/openings. I'd post my usual spiel about our Seattle office (where I work now), but we're renting coworking space up here, so I don't want to bait and switch.
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Yes that's it! Now I've got a bunch of other places to throw those... :) I don't know the cost, I just experience the value.
Comment · 8 years ago
I tried finding some online but it looks like we haven't published any. I'll need to get permission; our customer base cares very much about facility security. Let me see what I can rustle up.
Comment · 8 years ago
I work for Viasat; all of our new-build offices in the past few years have been designed around what we call the neighborhood concept. A neighborhood is a set of individual offices (maybe 60sqft-ish?) with three solid walls, and one glass/wood wall with a sliding door. All the offices open into a central room that can be outfitted in a bunch of different ways. There are neighborhoods of different sizes, and basically, each team gets a neighborhood to themselves. The whole concept was developed through a series of experiments that took several years.

Some teams make use of the space better than others, of course, but for my group it's been a huge boon to our collaborative culture. The offices are well-insulated, so you don't need headphones to achieve quiet, but if you want to, you can leave your door open and hear what your teammates are discussing at any time.

Over time we're upgrading our older facilities to the same model, but in general there are few open-plan offices or cube farms in the company, and I highly doubt we're going to build more. Many years ago, our founders made it a company priority to give folks a door they can close, to get away from "it all" and focus.

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