7 months ago
Base Salary
$170k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and expand Skydio Cloud’s core data model and API for drones, docking stations, and generated data.
- Build customer-facing web application features including over-the-air updates, fleet health, asset management, security and permissions, user and device management, and 3D reconstruction.
- Design secure, efficient, observable, scalable, and robust software for petabytes of real-time drone data and video.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, engineers, support, Autonomy, Backend Infrastructure, and Field teams to deliver Skydio Cloud features.
- Own technical direction and features end to end while contributing to long-term platform architecture.
- Improve engineering standards through activities such as code review and post-mortems.
- Participate in a rotating on-call schedule to help maintain 24/7 platform availability.
Requirements
- Five or more years of software engineering experience is preferred.
- Experience building product features across the backend and frontend from concept through customer value.
- Ability to drive software through architecture, development, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
- High proficiency with modern cloud technologies and experience delivering scalable, secure cloud-based applications.
- Experience with or willingness to work across backend, frontend, APIs, geospatial data, and real-time systems.
- Experience with Skydio’s listed technology stack or similar technologies is a bonus.
- Experience with geospatial data, mapping, visualization, photogrammetry, scanning, mapping, or 3D reconstruction is a bonus.
- Familiarity with autonomy, robotics, or mission-planning architectures such as state machines and behavior trees is a bonus.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring three days per week in the San Mateo, California office.
- Relocation packages or assistance may be available for eligible candidates.
- Health insurance plans for eligible regular, full-time employees.
- Paid vacation, sick leave, holiday pay, and a 401(k) savings plan.
- Equity in the form of stock options for eligible regular, full-time employees.
Tech Stack
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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.