Staff Site Reliability Engineer

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $240k - $300k / year

⏰ Full Time

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⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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Skydio

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2014

🎖️ Defense

🏭 Manufacturing

📦 Logistics

💰 $170M Series E - Skydio on 2024-11

Defense • Manufacturing • Logistics

Skydio is a manufacturer of autonomous drone systems that combine advanced onboard artificial intelligence, sensors, and cloud software to automate flight for inspection, security, public safety, and mapping missions. Its product family (including the X10, X10D, R10, docking stations, and software such as Skydio Autonomy and DFR Command) is designed for rapid situational awareness, automated inspections, site security, and Drone-as-First-Responder deployments for government, utilities, and enterprise customers. Skydio delivers integrated hardware, software, and services to enable safer, faster, and more autonomous operations in challenging environments.

📋 Description

• Build, operate, and troubleshoot production Kubernetes/EKS clusters • Perform Kubernetes upgrades, node rollouts, and cluster maintenance • Build and manage AWS infrastructure including VPCs, networking, subnets, load balancers, IAM, EKS, databases, and storage • Define and maintain infrastructure using Terraform • Build and operate CI/CD and deployment infrastructure • Troubleshoot production issues across Kubernetes, AWS, Linux, networking, and databases • Build monitoring, alerting, and observability for critical infrastructure • Participate in on-call rotations and respond to production incidents • Identify and solve infrastructure scaling and reliability problems • Automate operational work using Python, Go, or similar languages • Help expand infrastructure across new regions and deployment environments

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineer, DevOps, Production Engineer, or equivalent infrastructure role • Strong hands-on experience operating Kubernetes • 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 • U.S. person status verification and ability to access controlled or restricted information as required • Bonus: Helm and GitOps experience • Bonus: Datadog or similar observability tooling • Bonus: PostgreSQL/database operations experience • Bonus: Multi-region infrastructure experience • Bonus: On-premises or disconnected deployment experience • Bonus: Streaming or high-throughput distributed systems experience

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary • Equity in the form of stock options • Comprehensive benefits package • Relocation assistance may be provided for eligible roles • Company group health insurance plans • Paid vacation time • Sick leave • Holiday pay • 401K savings plan