# Senior Software Engineer, Streaming

**Company:** [Skydio](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/skydio)
**Location:** San Mateo, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $200k – $240k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, apache pulsar, Kafka, continuous deployment, webrtc, quic, hls, h264, h265, rtp, Go, livekit, mediamtx
**Posted:** 2026-07-24

> Build and maintain real-time video streaming and telemetry infrastructure for autonomous drones on massively concurrent, low-latency distributed systems. Requires 5+ years building complex distributed systems with experience in messaging systems like Kafka or Pulsar.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build and maintain real-time infrastructure for autonomous drones, including video streaming and telemetry services.
- Design and operate massively concurrent, low-latency distributed systems processing terabytes of data daily.
- Tackle performance and scalability challenges with real-world impact.
- Shape the evolution of real-time frameworks to enable engineering teams to build sophisticated, stateful applications efficiently.
- Optimize performance over constrained network connections.
- Advance technologies like Skydio Connect Fusion to enhance reliability, responsiveness, and product capabilities.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building and running complex distributed systems.
- Experience with distributed messaging systems like Apache Pulsar or Kafka.
- Prior experience implementing continuous deployment for complex stateful systems.
- Passion for tackling complex problems across connectivity, backend services, and infrastructure components.
- Obtain FAA Part 107 certification within the first 60 days of employment (strongly encouraged; required for certain positions).

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with real-time media delivery infrastructure such as Livekit or MediaMTX.
- Experience with streaming protocols such as WebRTC, QUIC, HLS.
- Experience with low-level video protocols and codecs such as H264, H265, RTP.
- Experience with Go.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Annual base salary range: $200,000 - $240,000.
- Equity in the form of stock options.
- Comprehensive benefits including group health insurance, paid vacation, sick leave, holiday pay, and 401K savings plan.
- Relocation assistance may be provided for eligible roles.
- Compensation varies based on skill level, proficiencies, transferable knowledge, and experience.

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