- Robot type
- Drone
- Location
- USA
- Job type
- Software
- Posted
- Jan 19, 2026
- Salary
- $125,000–$150,000 a year
Full-time
SRE - Platform Engineer
Job description
Security Responsibility Statement: Employees are expected to provide a high level of security to any personal or private information accessed as part of their work, whether at a DroneUp facility or remotely. This includes participating in security training, remaining sensitive to individual rights to personal privacy, and complying with company policies. Employees who have access to sensitive data that is protected by regulation, such as HIPAA, or by contract, such as credit card data, must comply with any additional requirements dictated by the governing regulations or associated contracts.
Job responsibilities
- DroneUp is seeking an SRE - Platform Engineer who will focus on ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our internal and client-facing IT infrastructure and developer platform.
- Broad domain architect for the internal developer platform and all cloud engineering
- Drive architecture for tooling or in-house software
- Mentor other platform engineers to drive strong engineering practices
- Enablement of platform engineering technical capabilities in our internal client teams in software engineering
- Peer with the senior architects and engineers in software engineering
- Architecture and engineering focused on GCP environment
- Architect and oversee GKE cluster operations and workload management
Job requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field or 8+ years experience as a software engineer
- Proficiency in kubernetes. Optional: CKA, CKAD
- Extensive experience in Unix / Linux
- Polyglot and proficiency in multiple languages (ideally: Golang, NodeJS, Python, HCL and more)
- Knowledge of multi-cloud environment, including GCP, AWS, and Azure (familiar with at least two of these environments)
- Experienced in using git in trunk-based development models
- Experience in use of feature flagging in infrastructure and runtime (k8s)
- Experience with backend database technology is a plus, including supporting and performance enhancements