Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Skydio is a leading U.S. drone company specializing in autonomous flight through artificial intelligence, hardware, and software development. The Staff Infrastructure Engineer will support and re-architect Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure, improve continuous delivery, collaborate across hardware and cloud teams, and enhance the reliability, security, scalability, and cost efficiency of the Skydio Cloud platform.

Responsibilities:

• Re-architect and maintain the ever growing needs on our Kubernetes fleet and its supporting infrastructure
• Continually improve and expand the continuous delivery of the product
• Work in cross-functional teams (from hardware to cloud) to build new capabilities for the platform
• Work directly with security to continually improve the practices and controls that will keep our customer’s data and drones safe
• Drive cost saving initiatives early into Skydio’s product, so that it scales over time

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineer, DevOps or equivalent infrastructure role
• Can comfortably debug and automate Kubernetes clusters
• Not hesitant to jump into the code to fix the underlying issue (Python or Go preferred)
• Prior experience implementing continuous deployment systems
• Understand cloud platforms architecture, especially networking, security, storage, and resilient application topologies
• Ability and interest in being delegated business objectives and seeking out the solutions
• 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
• Familiarity with supporting both SaaS and self-hosted applications
• Experience with supporting drones or highly automated physical hardware