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Skydio

Robot type
Drone
Location
San MateoCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Software
Posted
Oct 26, 2026
Salary
$230,000–$275,000 a year
Full-time

Staff Software Engineer - Streaming Infrastructure

Job description

The Streaming team builds and operates the systems that move live video, telemetry, and control data between Skydio drones and our cloud platform. These systems support customers and internal teams across growing fleets, including devices operating over limited or unreliable networks. We work closely with device, networking, cloud infrastructure, security, and product teams to keep real-time communication reliable and responsive when it matters most.

Skydio is the leading US drone company and the world leader in autonomous flight, the key technology for the future of drones and aerial mobility.

Job responsibilities

  • Design and evolve Kubernetes infrastructure for real-time services, driving capacity planning and compute and bandwidth efficiency as concurrent streaming demand grows.
  • Improve deployment, scaling, and recovery workflows to minimize disruption to active streams.
  • Establish service-level objectives and observability for stream availability, connection success, and latency; investigate failures across application code, Linux networking, and cloud infrastructure to prevent…
  • Partner with device, networking, and product engineers to diagnose failures across the device-to-cloud path and enable new real-time capabilities.
  • Work with security engineers to strengthen the practices and controls that protect customer data, drones, and streaming services.

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