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Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Skydio· R&D
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Hybrid (San Mateo, California, United States), Hybrid (US Remote)$230k - $275kFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Staff Infrastructure Engineer responsible for building, operating, and scaling Skydio’s cloud infrastructure, including Kubernetes, AWS, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability, networking, and reliability.

Responsibilities

  • Own production infrastructure, including Kubernetes, AWS, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability, networking, and reliability.
  • Operate Kubernetes in production, including upgrades and management of production clusters.
  • Diagnose production infrastructure and networking problems.
  • Solve meaningful scaling or reliability challenges.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineer, DevOps, Production Engineer or equivalent infrastructure role.
  • Strong hands-on experience operating Kubernetes, not simply deploying applications to existing clusters.
  • Experience managing Kubernetes/EKS upgrades and production clusters.
  • Strong AWS fundamentals, including VPCs, public/private subnets, networking, load balancers, EKS, IAM, and databases.
  • Production experience with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tooling.
  • Experience owning or maintaining CI/CD and deployment systems such as Argo CD, Spinnaker, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or Jenkins.
  • Experience diagnosing production infrastructure and networking problems.
  • Experience solving meaningful scaling or reliability challenges.
  • Obtaining FAA Part 107 certification within the first 60 days of employment is strongly encouraged for all Skydio employees and required for certain positions.
  • This position requires access to export-controlled technical data, restricted government information, and/or information systems subject to U.S. government security and access-control requirements.

Skills

Required:KubernetesAWSTerraform (or similar IaC)CI/CD toolingNetworking

Benefits

  • Paid vacation time
  • Sick leave
  • Holiday pay
  • 401K savings plan
  • Group health insurance plans
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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