Senior AI Platform Engineer - Developer Tools & Velocity

Skydio; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Skydio is seeking an experienced infrastructure-focused developer to create tools and platforms that reduce cognitive load for engineers. You will partner with multiple teams to streamline workflows and pipelines, delivering secure, scalable internal tooling and agent integrations across firmware, autonomy, cloud, and apps.

The role emphasizes building a scalable AI-driven coding platform with guardrails and adoption measurement, driving velocity while ensuring security and reliability for a

Qualifications

• 5+ years building developer tools, infrastructure, or platform systems.
• Strong grounding in Python/Go/TypeScript/C++ and CI/CD.
• Experience with security-sensitive environments or monorepos.

Responsibilities

• You will be an integral member of our cross-functional infrastructure team and identify areas to lower developers’ cognitive load.
• You will write common tools, provide development best practices, and guide with leadership to improve engineering workflows and pipelines.
• You will build the platform that puts AI coding agents into the daily workflow of Skydio engineers, across codebase, CI, and internal infrastructure.
• You will design guardrails such as permissions, secrets handling, and auditability to keep agents secure.

Skills

Python

Go

TypeScript

C++

CI/CD

AWS

GCPA

Tools

Python

Go

TypeScript

C++

CI/CD

AWS

GCPA

Job description

Skydio is seeking an experienced infrastructure-focused developer to create tools and platforms that reduce cognitive load for engineers. You will partner with multiple teams to streamline workflows and pipelines, delivering secure, scalable internal tooling and agent integrations across firmware, autonomy, cloud, and apps.

The role emphasizes building a scalable AI-driven coding platform with guardrails and adoption measurement, driving velocity while ensuring security and reliability for a