Senior Software Engineer, Skydio

Developer Productivity, Bazel

$189-252k

Equity in the form of stock options. Compensation for certain positions may vary based on the position’s location

Kubernetes

Python

C++

Bazel

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

3 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)

Drone manufacturer

Open for applications

Drone manufacturer

501-1000 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceManufacturingDrones

Open for applications

$189-252k

Equity in the form of stock options. Compensation for certain positions may vary based on the position’s location

Kubernetes

Python

C++

Bazel

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

3 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)

501-1000 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceManufacturingDrones

Company mission

To make the world more productive, creative, and safe with autonomous flight.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

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
Understand cloud platforms architecture, especially networking, security, storage, and resilient application topologies
Familiarity with Bazel, Starlark, and maintaining rule sets
Prior experience implementing Continuous Deployment practices
Can write and test software in Go, Python, or C++
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or relevant experience

Desirable

Past experience developing Kubernetes operators
Full stack experience is a plus

What the job involves

In this role, 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
As a Senior Software Engineer focused on Developer Productivity, you will work on designing and building scalable internal tools that enhance our engineers abilities to write, test, and release software with confidence
Identify and lead internal cross-team projects end-to-end with a keen eye for simplicity, reliability, and a low-friction developer experience
Feature and app development to streamline developer workflows, which span on-premises workstations, cloud workstations, backend services and other development productivity improvements
Build and maintain tooling common to engineering to improve deployments, observability, and scalability
Identify ways to deliver software updates to our customers more quickly
Improve the functionality, performance, and reliability of core build architecture and corresponding build infrastructure services including remote execution, remote cache, and build analytics
Educate developers and evangelize best practices on code quality, development workflows, and test

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

Top investors

24% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.7)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)

Nov 2024

$170m

SERIES E

Feb 2023

$230m

SERIES E

Total funding: $741m

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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