Senior Software Engineer, Skydio
Drones as First Responders
$170-240k
Offers equity in the form of stock options
3 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
Drone manufacturer
Job no longer available
Drone manufacturer
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$170-240k
Offers equity in the form of stock 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 great software commercially, from backend to frontend, from idea to realized user value (6+ years of experience)
- You are customer-focused and love shipping products that quickly solve customer problems. You are interested in talking to our users and visiting them
- You have demonstrated the ability to take a concept and systematically drive it through the software lifecycle: architecture, development, testing, deployment and monitoring
- You have experience building and delivering scalable and secure cloud based systems with a high proficiency in modern cloud technologies within a complex codebase
- Direct experience with our frontend stack (TypeScript, React.js, Next.js, GraphQL)
- Direct experience with our backend stack (Python, PostgreSQL, Temporal)
- Bonus for direct experience with 3D graphics and video game tolling (WebGL, WebGPU, Unreal Engine, Three.js)
- Bonus for experience with geospatial tools (Mapbox, Cesium, ESRI suite, PostGIS, QGIS)
- Bonus for experience with real time and streaming tooling (Websockets, WebRTC, Livekit, WebCodecs)
- Bonus for direct experience with autonomy and robotics (Drone software, robotics software, ROS)
What the job involves
- By combining best-in-class autonomy and cloud-connected real-time visibility, our drones can get to the scene ahead of first responders. Drones act as their eyes and ears, giving them real-time situational awareness for better tactical decisions. Drones can be piloted by a remote operator from our Cloud platform, DFR Command, allowing those on scene to focus on what’s happening in front of them
- As a full stack or frontend engineer on this team, you will be responsible for building out critical cloud products and features to add to and improve our software in this area. You will be working across multiple parts of the Skydio stack and delivering new capabilities continuously to our growing commercial customer base in the drones as first responders (DFR) space
- Build and expand our web applications: Remote Flight Deck for drone pilots in operations centers, DFR Command for higher-ups with a strategic view, ReadyLink for people with boots on the ground to receive drone video and intelligence
- Imagine and build best in class UIs and UX, leveraging advanced web technologies, 3D and video, and taking inspiration from video games, aerospace cockpits, video conferencing apps, AI tools and other specialized professional apps
- Collaborate across functions (product managers, designers, engineers, testers) to design and deliver customer-facing product features that enable drones as first responders (DFR) workflows, and more generally, our vision for drones as infrastructure
- Leverage your experience and best practices to not only uphold but improve Skydio’s engineering standards for secure, efficient, observable, scalable software. 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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