Skydio
Senior Software Engineer - Streaming Infrastructure
$190K–$250K
San Mateo, California, United States · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in SRE, platform engineering, DevOps, or an equivalent infrastructure role.
- Visa sponsorship
- Employment is contingent upon verification of U.S. person status and the ability to access controlled or restricted information as required for the position.
About the job
Build and operate cloud infrastructure for Skydio’s real-time streaming platform, improving reliability, performance, security, and scalability.
What you'll do
- Build and improve Kubernetes infrastructure, capacity planning, and compute and bandwidth efficiency.
- Improve deployment, scaling, recovery, observability, and service-level objectives for streaming services.
- Diagnose device-to-cloud failures and strengthen security in collaboration with partner teams.
What they ask for
- 5+ years in SRE, platform engineering, DevOps, or an equivalent infrastructure role, with independent project delivery and cross-team collaboration.
- Strong experience operating and automating production Kubernetes clusters; familiarity with AWS and continuous deployment, including safe rollout and rollback.
- Experience operating distributed systems with long-lived connections, latency-sensitive traffic, or demanding availability requirements; ability to fix application-code issues.
- Strong understanding of cloud networking, security, storage, and resilient application topologies; experience with production observability and troubleshooting.
Nice to have
- Go; the posting states Go is preferred.
- Experience with real-time video, communications, or device connectivity; familiarity with WebRTC, RTP/RTCP, ICE/STUN/TURN, or LiveKit.
Pay
$190,000 - $250,000 USD annual base salary
Tools
Kubernetes, AWS, Go, Python, C++, WebRTC, RTP/RTCP, LiveKit
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