Who We Are:

Ever wonder who brings the entertainment to your flights? Panasonic Avionics Corporation is #1 in the industry for delivering inflight products such as movies, games, WiFi, and now Bluetooth headphone connectivity!

How exciting would it be to be a part of the innovation that goes into creating technology that delights millions of people in an industry that’s here to stay! With our company’s history spanning over 40 years, you will have stability, career growth opportunities, and will work with the brightest minds in the industry. And we are committed to a diverse and inclusive culture that will help our organization thrive! We seek diversity in many areas such as background, culture, gender, ways of thinking, skills and more. If you want to learn more about us visit us at www.panasonic.aero. And for a full listing of open job opportunities go to www.panasonic.aero/join-us/.

The Position:

This role emphasizes strong software engineering fundamentals, hands-on development, and secure system design. The MTS V, Software Engineer will build robust, production-grade software applications and platform services that enable secure GitOps-driven deployments, Kubernetes-based infrastructure automation, and configuration transformation systems.

This is a senior individual contributor role with deep ownership of software architecture, code quality, system reliability, security posture, and technical direction.

Core Responsibilities:

Software Design & Architecture

• Architect and design scalable, modular, maintainable, and secure software systems using modern design principles and patterns.
• Translate complex functional, security, and system requirements into well-defined technical designs.
• Drive API design, service contracts, and integration strategies across distributed components with secure communication patterns.
• Embed security controls such as authentication, authorization, encryption, and policy enforcement into system designs.
• Ensure software solutions are resilient, testable, observable, and production-ready.

Hands-on Software Development

• Write high-quality, performant, and secure production code (Go preferred).
• Implement microservices, controllers, automation agents, and platform tooling with secure coding practices.
• Develop reusable libraries and frameworks that incorporate built-in security guardrails.
• Conduct code reviews focusing on code quality, performance, and vulnerability prevention.
• Refactor and optimize existing systems for performance, scalability, maintainability, and security hardening.
• Integrate secure software supply chain practices (artifact signing, provenance, dependency scanning).

Testing & Quality Engineering

• Implement comprehensive unit, integration, system, and security tests.
• Build automated validation pipelines including SAST, DAST, dependency, and container image scanning.
• Support system and penetration testing efforts; analyze results and drive remediation.
• Promote engineering discipline around versioning, backward compatibility, release stability, and vulnerability management.
• Ensure security validation is embedded into CI/CD quality gates.

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

• Create infrastructure automation frameworks for provisioning, configuration, patching, and upgrades.
• Develop tooling that transforms hardware/software configuration inputs into validated, compliant runtime configurations.
• Automate air-gapped image distribution strategies with integrity verification and secure OCI registry integration.
• Implement secure configuration, key, and secret management mechanisms.
• Embed infrastructure security controls such as identity federation, least-privilege access, and network segmentation.

Security Engineering Responsibilities

• Integrate secure SDLC practices across design, development, testing, and release.
• Conduct threat modeling and risk assessments for platform and application architectures.
• Implement Zero Trust principles across service communication and platform access.
• Define and enforce identity, authentication, and authorization frameworks.
• Drive container, Kubernetes, and runtime workload security standards.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise and regulatory security requirements.
• Partner with Security teams on vulnerability management, incident response, and remediation strategies.

Technical Leadership

• Own complex software subsystems end-to-end from design through secure production operation.
• Mentor engineers in software craftsmanship, distributed systems design, cloud-native development, and secure coding practices.
• Establish engineering standards for code quality, security, maintainability, and long-term sustainability.
• Drive cross-team technical and security alignment; reduce architectural and control fragmentation.
• Champion a security-first engineering culture.

The salary range of $138,000 – $231,000 is just one component of Panasonic’s total package. The final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to individual’s knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this role may be eligible for discretionary bonuses and incentives. The minimum hourly wage for this role will be the greater of the posted range, or minimum wage for the location where the employee will be working, subject to local minimum wage requirements.

What we're looking for:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related discipline.
• Extensive hands-on experience building production-grade software systems.
• Strong programming expertise (Go strongly preferred).
• Deep understanding of software design principles, distributed systems, scalable architectures, and secure system design.
• Experience with Kubernetes, containerization, and GitOps-based workflows.
• Experience implementing platform and application security controls in cloud-native environments.
• Proven ability to lead complex software initiatives and mentor engineers.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and risk assessment capabilities.

Our Principles:

Contribution to Society | Fairness & Honesty | Cooperation & Team Spirit | Untiring Effort for Improvement | Courtesy & Humility | Adaptability | Gratitude

What We Offer:

At Panasonic Avionics Corporation we realize the most important aspects in leading our industry are the bright minds behind everything we do. We are proud to offer our employees a highly competitive, comprehensive and flexible benefits program.

• Paid time off: Exempt Salaried employees receive flexible paid time off. This means that there is no fixed number, range, or limit to the amount of Personal and Vacation Days that may be taken for exempt employees. Non-exempt hourly employees accrue 14 vacation days per year + 7 sick days + 3 personal days. Accrual rate increases with tenure. All employees receive 11 company paid holidays per year. We also close our offices at the corporate level in the U.S. between Christmas and New Year. For operational positions that are expected to work on holidays, we provide additional compensation for hours worked.

• Health Insurance: Medical insurance offerings from Aetna and Kaiser (CA &HI). Options for Employee Only, Employee + Spouse/Domestic Partner, Employee + Children, or Family. Dental PPO and DMO options & Vision insurance through EyeMed or VSP.

• 401K with 50% match on up to 8% contribution, full vested from day 1.

• Washington residents only are eligible for: Washington’s Family and Medical Leave program and Washington’s Paid Sick Leave program.

• Other offerings include: Wellness Program, Counseling services, FSA & HSA, Life Insurance for employee, spouse and child, AD&D Insurance, Long-term and Short-term disability, Critical Illness Insurance, Accident Insurance, Legal Assistance, Pet Insurance, Identity Theft Protection, Dependent Care FLSA, Education Assistance, Commuter Program, Employee Purchase Program, Service Award Program.

Panasonic is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by law or company policy. All qualified individuals are required to perform the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation. Pre-employment drug testing is required for safety sensitive positions or as may otherwise be required by contract or law. Due to the high volume of responses, we will only be able to respond to candidates of interest. All candidates must have valid authorization to work in the U.S. Thank you for your interest in Panasonic Avionics Corporate.

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