Cloud SRE Engineer - Kubernetes & AWS

Socket.dev; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

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Health insurance

Relocation assistance

401K

Job summary

Skydio, a US-based drone company, is seeking a hands-on Site Reliability Engineer to own production infrastructure across Kubernetes, AWS, IaC, and CI/CD. You'll focus on reliability, scalability, and on-call readiness to ensure uptime for critical drone software.

Build and operate Kubernetes/EKS clusters, manage AWS networking and IAM, and advance Terraform-based infrastructure. You will partner with software, security, and SRE teams to reduce toil and accelerate deployments.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in Production Engineer, SRE, DevOps or equivalent.
• Strong hands-on Kubernetes experience beyond basic deployments.
• Solid AWS fundamentals: VPCs, subnets, IAM, EKS, databases.
• Terraform or similar IaC tooling experience.
• Experience with CI/CD systems such as Argo CD, Spinnaker, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD or Jenkins.
• Ability to diagnose production infrastructure and networking issues.
• Willingness to participate in on-call rotations.

Responsibilities

• Build, operate, and troubleshoot production Kubernetes/EKS clusters.
• Perform Kubernetes upgrades, node rollouts, and cluster maintenance.
• Manage AWS infrastructure: VPCs, subnets, load balancers, IAM, EKS, databases.
• Define and maintain infrastructure using Terraform.
• Build and operate CI/CD and deployment infrastructure.
• Troubleshoot production issues across Kubernetes, AWS, Linux, networking, and databases.
• Build monitoring and observability for critical infrastructure.
• Participate in on-call rotations and respond to incidents.
• Identify and fix scaling and reliability problems.
• Automate operational tasks with Python or Go.
• Help expand infrastructure to new regions.

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS

Python

Go

CI/CD tooling

Infrastructure as Code

Tools

Terraform

Argo CD

Spinnaker

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI/CD

Jenkins

Datadog

Job description

Skydio, a US-based drone company, is seeking a hands-on Site Reliability Engineer to own production infrastructure across Kubernetes, AWS, IaC, and CI/CD. You'll focus on reliability, scalability, and on-call readiness to ensure uptime for critical drone software.

Build and operate Kubernetes/EKS clusters, manage AWS networking and IAM, and advance Terraform-based infrastructure. You will partner with software, security, and SRE teams to reduce toil and accelerate deployments.