# Software Engineer - Cloud Simulation & Full-Stack

**Company:** [Skydio](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/skydio)
**Location:** San Mateo, CA
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $170k – $240k/yr
**Skills:** Python, C++, TypeScript, React, GraphQL, AWS, Kubernetes, Postgres, Go, Rust
**Posted:** 2026-03-04

> Builds cloud-native backend services and full-stack web interfaces for Skydio's customer-facing drone simulator, integrating with C++/Python runtime for configuration, orchestration, and scalable simulation experiences. Requires proficiency in Python, C++, React, cloud platforms, and APIs.

## Job Description

## 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.

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