Senior Software Engineer

Who you are

• 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
• 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

What the job involves

• 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 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
• 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