Senior Software Engineer - Developer Productivity

Skydio•San Mateo, CA

23h

About The Position

Skydio is the leading US drone company and the world leader in autonomous flight, the key technology for the future of drones and aerial mobility. 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. About the team: As a Developer Experience Engineer, 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. About the role: As a Software Engineer focused on Developer Productivity, 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
Familiarity with Bazel, Starlark, and maintaining rule sets
Prior experience implementing Continuous Deployment practices
Can write and test software in Go and Python
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or relevant experience

Nice To Haves

Past experience developing Kubernetes operators

Responsibilities

Identify and lead internal cross-team projects end-to-end with a keen eye for simplicity, reliability, and a low-friction developer experience
Feature and app development to streamline developer workflows, which span on-premises workstations, cloud workstations, backend services and other development productivity improvements
Build and maintain tooling common to engineering to improve deployments, observability, and scalability
Identify ways to deliver software updates to our customers more quickly
Improve the functionality, performance, and reliability of core build architecture and corresponding build infrastructure services including remote execution, remote cache, and build analytics
Educate developers and evangelize best practices on code quality, development workflows, and test