Skydio
Staff Software Engineer - Streaming Infrastructure
$230K–$275K
San Mateo, California, United States · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ 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
Shapes and operates cloud infrastructure and production systems for Skydio’s real-time streaming platform, improving reliability, performance, security, and scalability.
What you'll do
- Design Kubernetes infrastructure and improve capacity, compute, and bandwidth efficiency as streaming demand grows.
- Improve deployment, scaling, and recovery workflows; define service-level objectives and observability, and investigate production failures.
- Lead cross-team technical initiatives and partner across device, networking, product, and security teams to improve streaming services.
What they ask for
- 8+ years in SRE, platform engineering, DevOps, or an equivalent infrastructure role, including defining technical direction and leading cross-team initiatives.
- Strong experience operating and automating production Kubernetes clusters, with familiarity with AWS and continuous deployment systems.
- Experience operating distributed systems with long-lived connections, latency-sensitive traffic, or demanding availability requirements, and fixing application-code issues.
- Strong understanding of cloud networking, security, storage, and resilient application topologies; experience building observability and investigating production issues with metrics, logs, traces, and profiling.
Nice to have
- Go; experience with real-time video, communications, or device connectivity platforms.
- Familiarity with WebRTC, RTP/RTCP, ICE/STUN/TURN, or LiveKit.
Pay
$230,000 - $275,000 USD annual base salary
Tools
Kubernetes, AWS, Go, Python, C++, Linux, WebRTC, LiveKit
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