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# Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

- **Company:** Skydio, Inc.
- **Location:** San Mateo, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $230,000.0 - $275,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Information Systems, Databases, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Github, Identity and Access Management, PostgreSQL, Octopus Deploy, Reliability Engineering, Software Deployment, Software Engineering, Spinnaker, Data Streaming, Technical Data Management Systems, Datadog, Load Balancing, Gitlab-ci, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Terraform, Jenkins
- **Published:** October 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/staff-software-engineer-infrastructure-san-mateo-ca--d59b6775-b875-4e8b-8968-8f849a54f930

## About the Role

Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Product Development, Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), Software Development, Cloud Computing, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Reliability Engineering, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Continuous Integration, You don't need to be an expert in every area, but you should have strong Kubernetes and cloud fundamentals with meaningful depth in at least one infrastructure domain., * 8+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineer, DevOps, Production Engineer or equivalent infrastructure role.

 * Strong hands-on experience operating Kubernetes, not simply deploying applications to existing clusters.
 * Experience managing Kubernetes/EKS upgrades and production clusters.
 * Strong AWS fundamentals, including VPCs, public/private subnets, networking, load balancers, EKS, IAM, and databases.
 * Production experience with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tooling.
 * Experience owning or maintaining CI/CD and deployment systems such as Argo CD, Spinnaker, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or Jenkins.
 * Experience diagnosing production infrastructure and networking problems.
 * Experience solving meaningful scaling or reliability challenges.
 * Obtaining FAA Part 107 certification within the first 60 days of employment is strongly encouraged for all Skydio employees and required for certain positions.
 * This position requires access to export-controlled technical data, restricted government information, and/or information systems subject to U.S. government security and access-control requirements. Employment in this role is contingent upon verification of U.S. person status and the ability to access controlled or restricted information as required for the position.
What makes you a good fit:

 * 8+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineer, DevOps, Production Engineer or equivalent infrastructure role.
 * Strong hands-on experience operating Kubernetes, not simply deploying applications to existing clusters.
 * Experience managing Kubernetes/EKS upgrades and production clusters.
 * Strong AWS fundamentals, including VPCs, public/private subnets, networking, load balancers, EKS, IAM, and databases.
 * Production experience with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tooling.
 * Experience owning or maintaining CI/CD and deployment systems such as Argo CD, Spinnaker, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or Jenkins.
 * Experience diagnosing production infrastructure and networking problems.
 * Experience solving meaningful scaling or reliability challenges.
 * Obtaining FAA Part 107 certification within the first 60 days of employment is strongly encouraged for all Skydio employees and required for certain positions.
 * This position requires access to export-controlled technical data, restricted government information, and/or information systems subject to U.S. government security and access-control requirements. Employment in this role is contingent upon verification of U.S. person status and the ability to access controlled or restricted information as required for the position.
Bonus points:

 * Helm and GitOps experience.
 * Datadog or similar observability tooling.
 * PostgreSQL/database operations experience.
 * Multi-region infrastructure experience.
 * On-premises or disconnected deployment experience.
 * Streaming or high-throughput distributed systems experience.

## Description

As a Staff Infrastructure Engineer on our team, you'll not just be responsible for supporting our We are looking for a hands-on Staff Site Reliability Engineer to build, operate, and scale the cloud infrastructure that powers our products. This role is focused on owning production infrastructure, including Kubernetes, AWS, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability, networking, and reliability.