Senior Real-Time Streaming Systems Engineer

Skydio; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Relocation assistance

Health insurance

401K savings plan

Job summary

Skydio is the leading US drone company building real-time infrastructure for autonomous flight. You will design and maintain streaming and telemetry services enabling mission-critical operations across millions of flights annually.

You’ll tackle massively concurrent, low-latency systems, optimize performance over constrained networks, and contribute to Skydio Connect Fusion and other stateful frameworks. FAA Part 107 certification is encouraged for most roles.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and operating complex distributed systems.
• Experience with distributed messaging systems such as Kafka or Pulsar.
• Experience deploying stateful systems with CI/CD.
• Strong problem-solving across connectivity, backend services, and infrastructure.
• FAA Part 107 certification within 60 days is encouraged for all Skydio employees.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain real-time infrastructure powering autonomous drones.
• Develop video streaming and telemetry services for mission-critical operations.
• Work on massively concurrent, low-latency distributed systems handling terabytes of data daily.
• Shape evolution of real-time frameworks to improve reliability and performance.

Skills

Distributed systems

Messaging systems

CI/CD

Problem solving

Real-time media

Streaming protocols

Go programming

Tools

Kafka/Pulsar

Livekit/MediaMTX

Job description

Skydio is the leading US drone company building real-time infrastructure for autonomous flight. You will design and maintain streaming and telemetry services enabling mission-critical operations across millions of flights annually.

You’ll tackle massively concurrent, low-latency systems, optimize performance over constrained networks, and contribute to Skydio Connect Fusion and other stateful frameworks. FAA Part 107 certification is encouraged for most roles.