Staff SRE — Kubernetes & Cloud Reliability

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Relocation aid

Health insurance

401K

Job summary

Skydio, Inc. is seeking a hands-on Staff Site Reliability Engineer to build, operate, and scale our cloud infrastructure that powers our drone platforms.

You will own production infrastructure, including Kubernetes, AWS, IaC, CI/CD, observability, networking, and reliability. You should have strong Kubernetes and cloud fundamentals with depth in at least one infrastructure domain, and 8+ years in SRE/DevOps or equivalent roles.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability/DevOps or equivalent infrastructure role.

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 production incidents.
• Identify and solve infrastructure scaling and reliability problems.
• Automate operational work using Python, Go, or similar languages.
• Help expand infrastructure across new regions and deployment environments.

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS fundamentals

Terraform

CI/CD

On-call experience

Production troubleshooting

Networking basics

PostgreSQL

Tools

Datadog

GitOps

Helm

Argo CD

GitHub Actions

Job description

Skydio, Inc. is seeking a hands-on Staff Site Reliability Engineer to build, operate, and scale our cloud infrastructure that powers our drone platforms.

You will own production infrastructure, including Kubernetes, AWS, IaC, CI/CD, observability, networking, and reliability. You should have strong Kubernetes and cloud fundamentals with depth in at least one infrastructure domain, and 8+ years in SRE/DevOps or equivalent roles.