13 hours ago
Base Salary
$230k - $275k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve Kubernetes infrastructure for real-time services while improving capacity, compute, and bandwidth efficiency.
- Improve deployment, scaling, rollout, rollback, and recovery workflows to minimize disruption to active streams.
- Establish service-level objectives and observability for stream availability, connection success, and latency.
- Investigate failures across application code, Linux networking, cloud infrastructure, and device-to-cloud systems.
- Partner with device, networking, security, product, and engineering teams to enable real-time capabilities and protect customer data and services.
- Define technical direction and lead cross-team initiatives supporting platform scale, reliability, performance, security, and efficiency.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in SRE, platform engineering, DevOps, or an equivalent infrastructure role.
- Demonstrated ability to define technical direction, lead cross-team initiatives, and translate business objectives into a technical roadmap.
- Strong experience operating and automating production Kubernetes clusters and familiarity with AWS and continuous deployment systems.
- Experience operating distributed systems with long-lived connections, latency-sensitive traffic, or demanding availability requirements.
- Comfort fixing underlying issues in application code; Go experience is preferred.
- Strong understanding of cloud networking, security, storage, and resilient application topologies.
- Experience diagnosing connectivity and performance issues across application, container, and cloud networking layers.
- Experience using production metrics, logs, traces, and profiling to investigate failures.
- Experience with real-time video, communications, device connectivity, drones, automated physical hardware, connection-oriented services, SaaS, or self-hosted applications is preferred.
- Familiarity with WebRTC, RTP/RTCP, ICE/STUN/TURN, LiveKit, packet loss, jitter, latency, NAT/firewall traversal, connection draining, and graceful shutdown is preferred.
- Employment requires verification of U.S. person status and the ability to access controlled or restricted information.
Benefits
- Annual base salary range of $230,000-$275,000, plus equity in the form of stock options.
- Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, paid vacation, sick leave, holiday pay, and a 401K savings plan.
- Relocation assistance may be provided for eligible roles.
- Regular, full-time employees are eligible for the stated benefits subject to applicable policies and eligibility criteria.
- FAA Part 107 certification is strongly encouraged within the first 60 days and required for certain positions.
About Skydio
Skydio builds autonomous drones, docking systems, and fleet management software for enterprise, public safety, and defense customers. It sells hardware with AI-based autonomy plus SaaS for fleet operations, inspections, and Drone-as-First-Responder programs. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, the company designs and assembles its products in the U.S., with manufacturing in Hayward, and its systems are used across utilities, law enforcement, and the U.S. military.