Software Engineer - Cloud Simulation & Full-Stack

Areas of Responsibility

Cloud-Backed Simulation Services: Build backend systems that orchestrate simulator execution, configuration, and lifecycle management in cloud environments.

Customer Personalization and Configuration: Enable customers to tailor simulation environments, scenarios, vehicles, and behaviors through robust APIs and services.

Simulator Integration: Design clean, reliable interfaces between cloud services and the core simulator runtime, including control, data exchange, and monitoring.

Full-Stack Experiences: Develop backend and frontend components that expose simulator capabilities through web interfaces and customer-facing tools.

Scalability and Reliability: Ensure simulation services are secure, observable, and scalable to support production customer workloads.

What You’ll Do

• Design and build cloud-native services that orchestrate, configure, and interact with the Skydio Simulator at scale.
• Develop robust backend systems that interface directly with the simulator runtime, enabling control, configuration, data exchange, and monitoring.
• Build customer-facing workflows and APIs that allow users to personalize simulation environments, scenarios, vehicles, and behaviors.
• Implement full-stack features, collaborating across backend services and frontend applications to deliver intuitive, reliable simulation experiences.
• Partner closely with simulator, autonomy, and product teams to translate complex simulator capabilities into usable, production-ready customer features.
• Architect systems with a strong focus on scalability, reliability, observability, and security, supporting multi-tenant, production workloads.
• Contribute to technical direction and architectural decisions around how simulation is delivered as a cloud product.

Qualifications

• Strong professional experience building backend and distributed systems in production environments.
• Proficiency in Python and C++ (required), with the ability to integrate cloud services with performance-sensitive native systems.
• Proficiency in modern frontend development using TypeScript and React.
• Experience designing and consuming APIs, including GraphQL or similar API paradigms.
• Experience with cloud and platform technologies such as AWS, Kubernetes, and PostgreSQL.
• Comfort working across system boundaries — from cloud services and APIs down to simulator-facing interfaces.
• Strong product sense and ability to design systems that are both technically sound and intuitive for customers.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across multiple teams and disciplines.

Bonus Experience

• Experience with Go for backend or platform services.
• Experience with Rust (strong plus), especially for systems, performance-sensitive, or infrastructure work.
• Frontend experience with 3D or visualization technologies such as Three.js or WebGL.
• Familiarity with workflow orchestration systems such as Temporal.
• Experience productizing complex technical systems for external users.
• Background or interest in simulation, robotics, or real-time systems.

Compensation

Annual base salary range: $170,000 - $240,000. Includes equity (stock options), comprehensive benefits, paid vacation, sick leave, holidays, 401K. Relocation assistance may be provided.