Senior Real-Time Streaming Engineer

PVH (Tommy Hilfiger/Calvin Klein); United States; On-site; USD 200,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Health insurance

Job summary

Skydio, the leading US drone company, seeks a senior distributed systems engineer to help build the real-time infrastructure powering autonomous drones. You will design and maintain video streaming and telemetry services for mission-critical operations across millions of flights each year.

You will tackle massively concurrent, low-latency systems processing terabytes of data daily and optimize performance over constrained networks while shaping the evolution of Skydio's real-time frameworks used

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building / running complex distributed systems.
• Experience with distributed messaging systems, like Apache Pulsar or Kafka.
• Prior experience implementing continuous deployment for complex stateful systems.
• You're someone who loves tackling complex problems across connectivity, backend services, and infrastructure components.
• Obtaining FAA Part 107 certification within the first 60 days of employment is strongly encouraged for all Skydio employees and required for certain positions.

Responsibilities

• Build the real-time infrastructure that powers autonomous drones.
• Design and maintain video streaming and telemetry services for mission-critical operations across millions of flights each year.
• Tackle massively concurrent, low-latency distributed systems that process terabytes of data daily.
• Shape the evolution of Skydio's real-time frameworks used across the company to enable engineering teams to build complex, stateful applications more efficiently.
• Solve performance challenges across constrained network connections to enhance reliability and responsiveness of products.

Skills

Distributed systems

Apache Pulsar

Kafka

CI/CD for stateful systems

Go

Tools

Go

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Skydio, the leading US drone company, seeks a senior distributed systems engineer to help build the real-time infrastructure powering autonomous drones. You will design and maintain video streaming and telemetry services for mission-critical operations across millions of flights each year.

You will tackle massively concurrent, low-latency systems processing terabytes of data daily and optimize performance over constrained networks while shaping the evolution of Skydio's real-time frameworks used