Senior Software Engineer, Developer Productivity

Skydio•San Mateo, CA

1d•$200,000 - $240,000

About The Position

Skydio is the leading US drone company and the world leader in autonomous flight. 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
Prior experience using Bazel
Can write and test software in Go, Python, or C++
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or relevant experience
Obtaining FAA Part 107 certification within the first 60 days of employment is strongly encouraged for all Skydio employees and required for certain positions.

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.