Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack

Skydio
San Mateo
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 200,000 - 275,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 8+ yearsSkills: ["TypeScript","React","GraphQL","Python","AWS","PostgreSQL","Kubernetes","Temporal","Geospatial data","Mapbox","Cesium","PostGIS","ArcGIS","QGIS","API design","Cloud services","Frontend","Backend"]

Staff Software Engineer - Full-stack will design and build core cloud systems powering autonomous drone operations at scale, spanning backend services in Python/Go and frontend in TypeScript/React. You’ll own end-to-end features for Skydio Cloud, collaborate with cross-functional teams, shape platform architecture, and contribute to reliability, observability, and performance for fleets, missions, and geospatial data.

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Skydio
Skydio
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Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack

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Job Summary

Staff Software Engineer - Full-stack will design and build core cloud systems powering autonomous drone operations at scale, spanning backend services in Python/Go and frontend in TypeScript/React. You’ll own end-to-end features for Skydio Cloud, collaborate with cross-functional teams, shape platform architecture, and contribute to reliability, observability, and performance for fleets, missions, and geospatial data.
Location: San Mateo
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •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.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 200,000 - 275,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health Insurance401kPaid LeaveEquity

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years of experience building full-stack software systems
  • •Strong proficiency in TypeScript, React, GraphQL, Python, and cloud platforms such as AWS
  • •Demonstrated systems thinking with end-to-end performance, reliability, testing, and observability
  • •Experience building secure, scalable enterprise-grade cloud applications and APIs
  • •Familiarity with PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Temporal, or similar technologies
Experience:8+ yearsDroneSaaSCloudGeospatial
Skills:TypeScriptReactGraphQLPythonAWSPostgreSQLKubernetesTemporalGeospatial dataMapboxCesiumPostGISArcGISQGISAPI designCloud servicesFrontendBackend
Tech Stack:TypeScriptReactGraphQLPythonAWSPostgreSQLKubernetesTemporalMapboxCesiumPostGISArcGISQGISCloud

Company Brief

Skydio
Designs and manufactures autonomous consumer and enterprise drones using AI-powered vision and navigation systems for inspection, mapping, public safety, and industrial applications. Focuses on rugged, fully autonomous flight and end-to-end drone solutions.
Industry: Drones & Aerial Logistics
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series D
Headquarters: San Mateo, United States
Founded: 2014
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