Site Reliability Engineer

Skydio is the leading US drone company and the world leader in autonomous flight. They are hiring a hands-on Site Reliability Engineer to build, operate, and scale the cloud infrastructure that powers their products. The role focuses on production infrastructure ownership across Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, monitoring, and reliability engineering.

Responsibilities:

• Build, operate, and troubleshoot production Kubernetes/EKS clusters
• Perform Kubernetes upgrades, node rollouts, and cluster maintenance
• Build and manage AWS infrastructure including VPCs, networking, subnets, load balancers, IAM, EKS, databases, and storage
• Define and maintain infrastructure using Terraform
• Build and operate CI/CD and deployment infrastructure
• Troubleshoot production issues across Kubernetes, AWS, Linux, networking, and databases
• Build monitoring, alerting, and observability for critical infrastructure
• Participate in on-call rotations and respond to production incidents
• Identify and solve infrastructure scaling and reliability problems
• Automate operational work using Python, Go, or similar languages
• Help expand infrastructure across new regions and deployment environments

Requirements:

• • 3+ years of experience as a Production Engineer, SRE, DevOps, or equivalent infrastructure role
• • Strong hands-on experience operating Kubernetes, not simply deploying applications to existing clusters
• • Experience managing Kubernetes/EKS upgrades and production clusters
• • Strong AWS fundamentals, including VPCs, public/private subnets, networking, load balancers, EKS, IAM, and databases
• • Production experience with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tooling
• • Experience owning or maintaining CI/CD and deployment systems such as Argo CD, Spinnaker, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or Jenkins
• • Experience diagnosing production infrastructure and networking problems
• • Experience solving meaningful scaling or reliability challenges
• • 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
• • Helm and GitOps experience
• • Datadog or similar observability tooling
• • PostgreSQL/database operations experience
• • Multi-region infrastructure experience
• • On-premises or disconnected deployment experience
• • Streaming or high-throughput distributed systems experience