Senior Software Engineer - Streaming

Skydio•San Mateo, CA

13h

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 Role: Skydio’s mission is to make the world a safer and more efficient place through the use of drones. Individual customers can deploy thousands of drones and docking stations. As a senior software engineer on the streaming team, you will build and operate the systems that power real-time data and video streaming from Skydio devices to our cloud platform. These systems operate in challenging network environments and serve as foundational infrastructure used by customers and internal teams. This includes designing, building, and operating the systems that reliably move live video, telemetry, and control data from drones The streaming team owns the end-to-end path for real-time data and video from Skydio devices to our cloud platform. We primarily develop backend services in Go, with some Python services and occasional frontend work. We also make targeted changes on-device when needed to improve reliability, performance, or observability. As a senior engineer, you’ll work closely with device, networking, infrastructure, and product teams to enable new real-time features and continuously improve the streaming platform that other teams build on.

Requirements

5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong focus on backend or systems-oriented development.
Proven ability to take a concept and systematically drive it through the full software lifecycle: architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Proficiency in Go, willingness to work across languages as needed.
Experience building and operating distributed systems in production, with attention to performance, observability, and failure modes.
Familiarity with cloud-native technologies (AWS, Kubernetes) and networking fundamentals
Strong technical judgment and a high capacity to learn in a complex problem space, with comfort working across team boundaries to unblock and enable others.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Python and/or C++ is a plus.
experience with real-time or streaming systems (LiveKit, Apache Pulsar, etc.) is a plus but not required.

Responsibilities

Design and build the core services that power real-time data and video streaming from Skydio drones to the cloud.
Optimize systems for low-bandwidth, high-latency, and unreliable network environments, ensuring resilient and predictable behavior in the field.
Design secure, efficient, observable, scalable, and robust software for handling petabytes of real-time data and video from fleets of Skydio drones.
Research, evaluate, and integrate libraries, protocols, and architectural approaches to continuously improve performance, reliability, and developer experience.