4 hours ago
Base Salary
$190k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and improve Kubernetes infrastructure for real-time services, including capacity planning and compute and bandwidth efficiency.
- Improve deployment, scaling, recovery, rollout, and rollback workflows to minimize disruption to active streams.
- Build observability and define service-level objectives for stream availability, connection success, and latency.
- Investigate failures across application code, Linux networking, containers, and cloud infrastructure and prevent recurrence.
- Partner with device, networking, product, and security engineers to diagnose device-to-cloud failures and strengthen protections for customer data, drones, and streaming services.
- Own infrastructure projects from design through deployment and ongoing operation as the streaming platform scales.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in SRE, platform engineering, DevOps, or an equivalent infrastructure role.
- Demonstrated ability to independently deliver infrastructure projects from design through production and collaborate across teams.
- Strong experience operating and automating production Kubernetes clusters and familiarity with AWS and continuous deployment systems.
- Experience with safe rollout and rollback strategies, distributed systems, long-lived connections, latency-sensitive traffic, and demanding availability requirements.
- Comfort fixing underlying issues in application code; Go experience is preferred, with backend services also using Python and C++.
- Strong understanding of cloud networking, security, storage, resilient application topologies, and diagnosing connectivity and performance issues across application, container, and cloud networking layers.
- Experience using production metrics, logs, traces, and profiling to investigate failures.
- Preferred experience with real-time video, communications, device connectivity platforms, drones, WebRTC, RTP/RTCP, ICE/STUN/TURN, LiveKit, connection-oriented service scaling, packet loss, jitter, latency, NAT/firewall traversal, SaaS, or self-hosted applications.
- Employment is contingent upon verification of U.S. person status and ability to access controlled or restricted information as required.
Benefits
- Annual base salary range of $190,000-$250,000, 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 employee benefits and eligibility are subject to applicable laws, company policies, and criteria.
- Obtaining FAA Part 107 certification within the first 60 days is strongly encouraged for all employees 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.