Skydio Staff Software Engineer at Skydio building and operating cloud infrastructure for real-time streaming platform. Responsible for improving Kubernetes infrastructure, deployment workflows, and service reliability.
Responsibilities
As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer on the Streaming team, you will build and operate the cloud infrastructure behind Skydio’s real-time streaming platform. You will work across Kubernetes, networking, deployment systems, and production services to improve reliability, performance, security, and efficiency.
This is a hybrid software and infrastructure role with the freedom to work across the stack, including making changes to application code to address underlying problems. You will own infrastructure projects from design through deployment and ongoing operation, collaborating with partner teams to help our streaming platform scale with customer demand. Our backend services are primarily written in Go, with some Python and C++.
How you will make an impact
Build and improve Kubernetes infrastructure for real-time services, contributing to capacity planning and improving compute and bandwidth efficiency as concurrent streaming demand grows.
Improve deployment, scaling, and recovery workflows to minimize disruption to active streams.
Build observability and help define service-level objectives for stream availability, connection success, and latency; investigate failures across application code, Linux networking, and cloud infrastructure to prevent recurrence.
Partner with device, networking, and product engineers to diagnose failures across the device-to-cloud path and enable new real-time capabilities.
Work with security engineers to strengthen the practices and controls that protect customer data, drones, and streaming services.
What makes you a good fit
5+ years in SRE, platform engineering, DevOps, or an equivalent infrastructure role, with demonstrated ability to independently deliver projects from design through production and collaborate effectively across teams.
Strong experience operating and automating production Kubernetes clusters, with familiarity with AWS and continuous deployment systems, including safe rollout and rollback strategies.
Experience operating distributed systems with long-lived connections, latency-sensitive traffic, or demanding availability requirements, and comfort fixing underlying issues in application code; Go preferred.
Qualification
5+ years in SREExperience operating real-time videoFamiliarity with WebRTCAdditional requirements
Required
5+ years in SRE, platform engineering, DevOps, or equivalent infrastructure role
Demonstrated ability to independently deliver projects from design through production
Strong experience operating and automating production Kubernetes clusters
Familiarity with AWS and continuous deployment systems including safe rollout and rollback strategies
Preferred
Experience operating real-time video, communications, or device connectivity platforms, including drones or highly automated physical hardware.
Familiarity with WebRTC, RTP/RTCP, ICE/STUN/TURN, or platforms such as LiveKit.
Experience troubleshooting connectivity and performance issues in real-time streaming systems, including packet loss, jitter, latency, and NAT/firewall traversal.
Experience scaling connection-oriented services, including connection draining and graceful shutdown.
Familiarity with supporting both SaaS and self-hosted applications.
Additional requirements
Obtaining FAA Part 107 certification within the first 60 days of employment is strongly encouraged for all Skydio employees and required for certain positions.
This position requires access to export-controlled technical data, restricted government information, and/or information systems subject to U.S. government security and access-control requirements. Employment in this role is contingent upon verification of U.S. person status and the ability to access controlled or restricted information as required for the position.
