Software Engineer - Cloud Simulation & Full-Stack

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Cloud-Backed Simulation Services : Build backend systems that orchestrate simulator execution, configuration, and lifecycle management in cloud environments.
• Customer Personalization and Configuration : Enable customers to tailor simulation environments, scenarios, vehicles, and behaviors through robust APIs and services.
• Simulator Integration : Design clean, reliable interfaces between cloud services and the core simulator runtime, including control, data exchange, and monitoring.
• Full-Stack Experiences : Develop backend and frontend components that expose simulator capabilities through web interfaces and customer-facing tools.
• Scalability and Reliability : Ensure simulation services are secure, observable, and scalable to support production customer workloads.
• Design and build cloud-native services that orchestrate, configure, and interact with the Skydio Simulator at scale.
• Develop robust backend systems that interface directly with the simulator runtime, enabling control, configuration, data exchange, and monitoring.
• Build customer-facing workflows and APIs that allow users to personalize simulation environments, scenarios, vehicles, and behaviors.

Job requirements

• Strong professional experience building backend and distributed systems in production environments.
• Proficiency in Python and C++ (required), with the ability to integrate cloud services with performance-sensitive native systems.
• Proficiency in modern frontend development using TypeScript and React .
• Experience designing and consuming APIs, including GraphQL or similar API paradigms.
• Experience with cloud and platform technologies such as AWS , Kubernetes , and PostgreSQL .
• Comfort working across system boundaries — from cloud services and APIs down to simulator-facing interfaces.
• Strong product sense and ability to design systems that are both technically sound and intuitive for customers.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across multiple teams and disciplines.