Senior SRE: Cloud, Kubernetes & Scale Leader

Skydio; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 240,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

Paid time off

401K

Job summary

Skydio is seeking a hands‑on Staff Site Reliability Engineer to build, operate, and scale our cloud infrastructure powering autonomous flight. You’ll own production infrastructure, including Kubernetes, AWS, IaC, CI/CD, observability, and reliability, with deep expertise in at least one domain.

You don’t need to be an expert in every area, but you should demonstrate strong Kubernetes and cloud fundamentals, plus meaningful depth in infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in SRE/DevOps or similar roles with hands-on infrastructure ownership.
• Strong Kubernetes/EKS operations and upgrades experience.
• Solid AWS fundamentals including VPCs, subnets, IAM, databases, and load balancers.
• Experience with Terraform or similar IaC tooling.
• Experience with CI/CD systems (Argo CD, Spinnaker, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins).
• Ability to diagnose complex production infrastructure and networking issues.

Responsibilities

• Build, operate, and troubleshoot production Kubernetes/EKS clusters.
• Perform Kubernetes upgrades, node rollouts, and cluster maintenance.
• Build and manage AWS infrastructure including VPCs, networking, subnets, load balancers, IAM, EKS, databases, and storage.
• 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, alerting, and observability for critical infrastructure.
• Participate in on-call rotations and respond to incidents.
• Automate operational tasks using Python or Go.

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD

Python

Go

Cloud fundamentals

Tools

Argo CD

Spinnaker

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI/CD

Jenkins

Job description

Skydio is seeking a hands‑on Staff Site Reliability Engineer to build, operate, and scale our cloud infrastructure powering autonomous flight. You’ll own production infrastructure, including Kubernetes, AWS, IaC, CI/CD, observability, and reliability, with deep expertise in at least one domain.

You don’t need to be an expert in every area, but you should demonstrate strong Kubernetes and cloud fundamentals, plus meaningful depth in infrastructure.