Skydio · 3 days ago
Senior Software Engineer - Fleet Management
San Mateo, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$170K/yr - $230K/yr
5+ years expSkydio is the leading US drone company and the world leader in autonomous flight, seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their fleet management team. This role involves building applications to help customers manage and scale their drone fleets, collaborating across functions to design and deliver features on Skydio Cloud, and ensuring the platform's reliability.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Drone ManagementDronesMachine LearningRobotics
Responsibilities
Continually design and expand Skydio Cloud’s core data model and API for drones/docks and the data they produce
Build the core features of fleet management, including over the air updates, real-time fleet health, photo and video asset management, security and permissioning, user and device management, and 3D reconstruction
Collaborate across functions (product managers, designers, engineers, and support) to design and deliver Skydio Cloud features that enable customers to scale
Design secure, efficient, observable, scalable, and robust software for dealing with petabytes of real-time data and video from fleets of Skydio drones
Leverage your experience and best practices to not only uphold but improve Skydio’s engineering standards. From code review to post-mortems, you’ll be expected to help the team grow
Ensure Skydio’s platform is available 24/7 by joining in the rotating on-call schedule across all engineering teams
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience preferred in building product features from backend to frontend, from idea to realized customer value
Capability of taking a concept and systematically driving it through the software lifecycle: architecture, development, testing, deployment, and monitoring
Experience building and delivering scalable and secure cloud based applications with a high proficiency in modern cloud technologies
Direct experience with our stack (Python, Go, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, AWS, Kubernetes, Temporal, Typescript) or similar technologies
Benefits
Equity in the form of stock options
Comprehensive benefits packages
Paid vacation time
Sick leave
Holiday pay
401K savings plan
Company
Skydio
Skydio uses artificial intelligence to create flying drones that are used by consumer, enterprise, and government customers.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$740MKey Investors
Linse CapitalAndreessen HorowitzN47
2024-11-15Series E· $170M
2023-02-27Series E· $230M
2021-02-28Series D· $170M
Leadership Team
Adam Bry
Co-founder & CEO
Tom Moss
COO (2018-2020), CEO APAC (2020-2024), Chief Corp Dev (2024~)
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