Skydio · 6 days ago
Senior Software Engineer - Streaming
San Mateo, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$180K/yr - $240K/yr
5+ years expSkydio is the leading US drone company and the world leader in autonomous flight. As a senior software engineer on the streaming team, you will build and operate the systems that power real-time data and video streaming from Skydio devices to our cloud platform, ensuring reliable performance in challenging network environments.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Drone ManagementDronesMachine LearningRobotics
Responsibilities
Design and build the core services that power real-time data and video streaming from Skydio drones to the cloud
Optimize systems for low-bandwidth, high-latency, and unreliable network environments, ensuring resilient and predictable behavior in the field
Design secure, efficient, observable, scalable, and robust software for handling petabytes of real-time data and video from fleets of Skydio drones
Research, evaluate, and integrate libraries, protocols, and architectural approaches to continuously improve performance, reliability, and developer experience
Qualification
Required
5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong focus on backend or systems-oriented development
Proven ability to take a concept and systematically drive it through the full software lifecycle: architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring
Proficiency in Go, willingness to work across languages as needed
Experience building and operating distributed systems in production, with attention to performance, observability, and failure modes
Familiarity with cloud-native technologies (AWS, Kubernetes) and networking fundamentals
Strong technical judgment and a high capacity to learn in a complex problem space, with comfort working across team boundaries to unblock and enable others
Preferred
Experience with Python and/or C++ is a plus
Experience with real-time or streaming systems (LiveKit, Apache Pulsar, etc.) is a plus but not required
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
H1B Sponsorship
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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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