Senior Software Engineer, Streaming

Skydio•San Mateo, CA

2d•$200,000 - $240,000

About The Position

As a member of this team, you'll help build the real-time infrastructure that powers some of the world's most advanced autonomous drones. You'll 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. Working on massively concurrent, low-latency distributed systems that process terabytes of data every day, you'll tackle complex performance and scalability challenges with real-world impact. You'll also shape the evolution of Skydio's real-time frameworks, empowering engineering teams across the company to build sophisticated, stateful applications more efficiently. From optimizing performance over constrained network connections to advancing industry-leading technologies like Skydio Connect Fusion, you'll 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.
Ability to tackle complex problems across connectivity, backend services, and infrastructure components.
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 Haves

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.

Responsibilities

Design and maintain world-class video streaming and telemetry services.
Work on massively concurrent, low-latency distributed systems that process terabytes of data every day.
Tackle complex performance and scalability challenges with real-world impact.
Shape the evolution of Skydio's real-time frameworks.
Empower engineering teams across the company to build sophisticated, stateful applications more efficiently.
Optimize performance over constrained network connections.
Advance industry-leading technologies like Skydio Connect Fusion.
Solve difficult technical problems that directly enhance the reliability, responsiveness, and capabilities of our products.