Senior Software Engineer, Developer Productivity Cloud Infrastructure

Skydio•San Mateo, CA

1d•$170,000 - $240,000

About The Position

Skydio is the leading US drone company and the world leader in autonomous flight. 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. You will be an integral member of our cross-functional infrastructure team. Working closely with each team of engineers, you will identify the areas that can be enhanced to lower developer’s cognitive load, and make our engineering workflows and pipelines even more efficient. You’ll write common tools, provide development best practices, and guide with thoughtful leadership as we deliver software for our growing customer base world-wide. As a Developer Productivity Engineer focusing on Cloud Infrastructure, you will work on designing and building scalable internal tools that enhance our engineers abilities to write, test, and release software with confidence. If you’re passionate about knowing how everything works from top to bottom, learning new technologies, and automating wherever possible, we’d love to hear from you.

Requirements

Understand cloud platforms architecture, especially networking, security, storage, and resilient application topologies
Prior experience implementing Continuous Deployment and Continuous Integration practices
Prior experience writing and maintaining Terraform
Can write and test software in Go, Python, or C++
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or relevant experience

Responsibilities

Re-architect our build and compute infrastructure to provide developers a delightful experience
Use technologies like containerization, remote caching, and job orchestration to optimize build setup and runtime
Analyze system usage to improve time-to-insight in the build system
Understand and improve developer workflows to reduce onboarding time for new developers
Figure out how to make these workflow improvements while helping the system be more cost-efficient.