Senior Software Engineer, Streaming

About the role

The Skydio team combines deep expertise in artificial intelligence, best-in-class hardware and software product development, operational excellence, and customer obsession to empower a broader, more diverse audience of drone users, from utility inspectors to first responders, soldiers in battlefield scenarios, and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain world-class video streaming and telemetry services that enable customers to carry out mission-critical operations across millions of flights each year.
• Tackle complex performance and scalability challenges with real-world impact.
• Shape the evolution of Skydio's real-time frameworks, empowering engineering teams across the company to build sophisticated, stateful applications more efficiently.
• Solve difficult technical problems that directly enhance the reliability, responsiveness, and capabilities of our products.

Requirements

• 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.
• Able to love tackling complex problems across connectivity, backend services, and infrastructure components.

Qualifications

• Obtaining FAA Part 107 certification within the first 60 days of employment is strongly encouraged for all Skydio employees and required for certain positions.

Nice to have

• Experience with real time media delivery infrastructure, such as Livekit, MediaMTX, etc.
• Experience with streaming protocols, such as WebRTC, QUIC, HLS, etc.
• Experience with low-level video protocols and codecs, such as H264, H265, RTP, etc.
• Experience with Go.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary.
• Equity in the form of stock options.
• Comprehensive benefits packages.

Pay

The annual base salary range for this position is $200,000-240,000*.

Schedule

This position is full-time.