# Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack

**Company:** [Skydio](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/skydio)
**Location:** San Mateo, CA
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $170k – $240k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, Go, TypeScript, React, GraphQL, Postgres, AWS, Kubernetes, Threejs, Temporal
**Posted:** 2026-03-17

> Designs and builds full-stack cloud and geospatial systems for Skydio's autonomous drone SaaS platform, enabling mission planning, fleet management, and data visualization. Requires 5+ years experience with Python/Go backend and TypeScript/React frontend, plus scalable cloud tech.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design and expand Skydio Cloud’s core data model and API for drones/docks and the data they produce.
- Build core features of customer facing web app: over-the-air updates, real-time fleet health, photo/video asset management, security/permissioning, user/device management, and 3D reconstruction.
- Collaborate across functions to design and deliver Skydio Cloud features enabling customers to scale.
- Design secure, efficient, observable, scalable, robust software for petabytes of real-time data and video from drone fleets.
- Leverage experience to improve engineering standards through code review and post-mortems.
- Join rotating on-call schedule for 24/7 platform availability.

## Requirements
- 5+ years experience building product features from backend to frontend.
- Capable of driving concepts through full software lifecycle: architecture, development, testing, deployment, monitoring.
- Experience building/delivering scalable, secure cloud-based applications with high proficiency in modern cloud technologies.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with Python, Go, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, AWS, Kubernetes, Temporal, TypeScript, React, ThreeJS or similar.
- Geospatial data, mapping, or visualization (Mapbox, Cesium, PostGIS, ArcGIS, QGIS).
- Photogrammetry, scanning, mapping, or 3D reconstruction pipelines.
- Integrating frontend with cloud services and real-time data systems.
- Familiarity with autonomy, robotics, or mission-planning architectures (state machines, behavior trees).

## Compensation
- Annual base salary: $170,000 - $240,000.
- Equity (stock options), comprehensive benefits, relocation assistance, paid vacation/sick leave/holidays, 401K.

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