Senior Software Engineer, Skydio
Fleet Management
$170-240k
Plus equity in the form of options
3 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
Drone manufacturer
Be an early applicant
Drone manufacturer
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$170-240k
Plus equity in the form of options
3 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make the world more productive, creative, and safe with autonomous flight.
Role
Who you are
- You have fun building product features from backend to frontend, from idea to realized customer value (5+ years of experience preferred)
- You are capable of taking a concept and systematically driving it through the software lifecycle: architecture, development, testing, deployment, and monitoring
- You have experience building and delivering scalable and secure cloud based applications with a high proficiency in modern cloud technologies
- Direct experience with our stack (Python, Go, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, AWS, Kubernetes, Temporal, Typescript) or similar technologies
What the job involves
- 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 full-stack engineer on the fleet management team, you will build the applications that help customers manage and scale their fleets seamlessly, from their first flight to their 10,000th—allowing customers to focus on critical tasks like inspecting the energy grid, responding to public safety emergencies, conducting search and rescue missions, and more
- The fleet management team primarily develops on Skydio Cloud (our SaaS platform) but also occasionally makes changes directly on the drone itself. The team develops in Python and Go on the backend with Typescript for the frontend
- As a full stack engineer, you’ll be collaborating with both product managers and designers with the full autonomy to own your features end-to-end. You’ll also have opportunities to visit our major customers to see your features in-action and iterate on your features directly with those customers
- Continually design and expand Skydio Cloud’s core data model and API for drones/docks and the data they produce. See our public API to see what’s possible
- Build the core features of fleet management, including over the air updates, real-time fleet health, photo and video asset management, security and permissioning, user and device management, and 3D reconstruction
- Collaborate across functions (product managers, designers, engineers, and support) to design and deliver Skydio Cloud features that enable customers to scale
- Design secure, efficient, observable, scalable, and robust software for dealing with petabytes of real-time data and video from fleets of Skydio drones
- Leverage your experience and best practices to not only uphold but improve Skydio’s engineering standards. From code review to post-mortems, you’ll be expected to help the team grow
- Ensure Skydio’s platform is available 24/7 by joining in the rotating on-call schedule across all engineering teams. While reliability is critical, our platform is stable and incidents are rare—Crime never sleeps, but thankfully, you still can
Our take
A leader in autonomous flight, Skydio builds drones that can track and film targets while avoiding obstacles. Its products have a wide range of applications, most notably for businesses that need to undertake inspections in unsafe places. The drones are also valuable to search and rescue efforts, police forces, and the US army.
Backed by a range of top investors and strategic partners (including Andreesen Horowitz, Levitate Capital, and Next 47) Skydio sets itself apart from its competitors by marketing its products predominantly to businesses. With technology such as 3D scanning and a 360-degree superzoom mode, its drones have a wide range of applications and functionality.
The company raised funding in 2023, which has boosted its valuation to over $2 billion. It has since focussed on R&D, developing and launching the X10 model which is designed for first responders and the military, as well as enhancing its remote control and thermal imaging capabilities. As the largest American drone company, there is no reason Skydio shouldn't remain a key industry actor for years to come.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Feb 2023
$230m
SERIES E
Feb 2021
$171m
SERIES D
Total funding: $571m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company HQ
Western Hills, San Mateo, CA
Leadership
Adam Bry
(CEO)Having studied at MIT, they spent a year and a half at Google as a Software Engineer. They left this position in February 2014 to co-found Skydio.
Abraham Bachrach
(CTO)Earned a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, and was a Software Engineer for Google's Project Wing.
Matt Donahoe
(CXO)Previously a Research Assistant at MIT Media Lab and a Mobile Engineer at Pocket Gems.
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