Senior Streaming Infra Engineer (Hybrid) - Go/K8s, Equity

Skydio, Inc.; San Mateo (CA); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Skydio, Inc. in San Mateo, CA seeks a Senior Software Engineer to build and operate the cloud-backed streaming platform.

You will work across Kubernetes, networking, and production services to improve reliability, performance, and security. This hybrid role lets you touch code and infrastructure, own projects end-to-end, and collaborate with device, networking, and product teams to scale real-time video and telemetry for fleets.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in SRE, platform engineering, DevOps, or equivalent infra role, delivering end-to-end projects
• Experience operating production Kubernetes clusters, AWS familiarity, and CD/CI with safe rollout and rollback
• Experience with latency-sensitive, real-time streaming or device connectivity platforms
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, security, storage, and resilient topologies
• Experience building observability using metrics, logs, traces, and profiling

Responsibilities

• Build and operate Kubernetes infra for real-time services, improving capacity and efficiency as demand grows
• Improve deployment, scaling, and recovery workflows to minimize disruption to streams
• Define service-level objectives for stream availability, latency, and connection success
• Diagnose failures across device-to-cloud path and enable new real-time capabilities
• Collaborate with security engineers to strengthen protections for data and streaming services

Skills

Go

Python

C++

Distributed systems

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Skydio, Inc. in San Mateo, CA seeks a Senior Software Engineer to build and operate the cloud-backed streaming platform.

You will work across Kubernetes, networking, and production services to improve reliability, performance, and security. This hybrid role lets you touch code and infrastructure, own projects end-to-end, and collaborate with device, networking, and product teams to scale real-time video and telemetry for fleets.