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Skydio
Staff Software Engineer (Full-stack)
Skills
ReactTypescriptPythonGolangPostgreSQLGraphQLAWSKubernetes
2 months ago
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Important information
Contract type:
Permanent
Salary:
$200,000 – $275,000 / year
Location:
United States
Work mode:
Onsite
Published on:
29 August 2026
What they need
- As a Staff Software Engineer - Full-stack you will design and build the core cloud systems that power autonomous drone operations at scale
- Your work will enable customers to plan complex aerial missions, manage and monitor large fleets, visualize rich spatial data, and seamlessly integrate drone operations into their workflows
- You’ll develop primarily on Skydio Cloud (our SaaS platform), with occasional work on software that runs directly on the drone
- This is a true full-stack role, combining backend systems in Python and Go with TypeScript and React on the frontend
- You will collaborate closely with Autonomy, Backend Infrastructure, Product, Design, and Field teams, owning technical direction and features end-to-end while helping shape Skydio’s long-term platform architecture
- Design and evolve Skydio Cloud’s core data models, APIs, and services for drones, docks, users, missions, and the large volumes of telemetry, video, and geospatial data they produce
- Build and maintain core fleet management capabilities, including real-time fleet health, over-the-air updates, asset and media management, security and permissions, user and device management, and fleet-scale observability
- Develop geospatial and mission-planning systems that allow customers to plan advanced aerial missions, visualize complex spatial datasets, and operate drones autonomously and safely
- Design secure, scalable, and highly observable systems capable of handling petabytes of real-time data and video from globally distributed drone fleets
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, Backend Infrastructure, and Field teams to rapidly iterate, incorporate customer feedback, and deliver impactful features
- Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, code reviews, and proof-of-concepts, helping raise the bar for engineering quality across the organization
- Participate in a rotating on-call schedule to help ensure Skydio’s platform remains reliable and available 24/7. While reliability is critical, incidents are rare- Experience building secure, scalable, enterprise-grade cloud applications and APIs
- Strong product instincts and the ability to take ambiguous problems and turn them into reliable, customer-facing solutions
- 8+ years of experience building full-stack software systems, with strong proficiency in TypeScript, React, GraphQL, Python, and cloud platforms such as AWS
- Demonstrated systems thinking: the ability to design end-to-end solutions with performance, reliability, testing, and observability in mind
- Familiarity with modern infrastructure and tooling such as PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Temporal, or similar technologies
- Experience with geospatial data, mapping, or visualization tools such as Mapbox, Cesium, PostGIS, ArcGIS, or QGIS
- Experience with photogrammetry, scanning, mapping, or 3D reconstruction pipelines
- Experience integrating frontend applications with cloud-based services and real-time data systems
- Familiarity with autonomy, robotics, or mission-planning architectures (e.g., state machines, behavior trees)
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