Staff Software Engineer - Streaming Infrastructure

The role

You will shape the cloud infrastructure and operational foundations for a real-time streaming platform. You will work across Kubernetes, networking, deployment systems, and production services to improve reliability, performance, security, and efficiency.

What you will do

• Design and evolve Kubernetes infrastructure for real-time services
• Improve deployment, scaling, and recovery workflows
• Establish service-level objectives and observability for stream availability, connection success, and latency
• Investigate failures across application code, Linux networking, and cloud infrastructure
• Partner with device, networking, and product engineers to diagnose failures
• Work with security engineers to strengthen practices and controls

Required qualifications

• 8+ years in SRE, platform engineering, DevOps, or an equivalent infrastructure role
• Strong experience operating and automating production Kubernetes clusters
• Familiarity with AWS and continuous deployment systems
• Experience operating distributed systems with long-lived connections, latency-sensitive traffic, or demanding availability requirements
• Comfort fixing underlying issues in application code
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, security, storage, and resilient application topologies
• Experience diagnosing connectivity and performance issues across application, container, and cloud networking layers
• Experience building observability and using production metrics, logs, traces, and profiling to investigate failures

Nice to have

• Experience operating real-time video, communications, or device connectivity platforms, including drones or highly automated physical hardware
• Familiarity with WebRTC, RTP/RTCP, ICE/STUN/TURN, or platforms such as LiveKit
• Experience troubleshooting connectivity and performance issues in real-time streaming systems, including packet loss, jitter, latency, and NAT/firewall traversal
• Experience scaling connection-oriented services, including connection draining and graceful shutdown
• Familiarity with supporting both SaaS and self-hosted applications
• Go preferred

Benefits

• Equity in the form of stock options
• Group health insurance plans
• Paid vacation time
• Sick leave
• Holiday pay
• 401K savings plan
• Relocation assistance may also be provided for eligible roles

Before you apply

• Obtaining FAA Part 107 certification within the first 60 days of employment is strongly encouraged
• Employment is contingent upon verification of U.S. person status
• Ability to access controlled or restricted information as required for the position

About the company

Skydio is the leading US drone company and the world leader in autonomous flight. The team combines expertise in artificial intelligence, hardware and software product development, operational excellence, and customer obsession.