Software Engineer - Cloud Simulation & Full-Stack

About the role

Skydio, the world leader in autonomous drones, is building a cloud‑native simulation platform that lets customers configure and run realistic flight scenarios at scale. We are looking for a Software Engineer to design and implement the services, APIs and full‑stack interfaces that power this customer‑facing simulator.

Key responsibilities

• Build backend systems that orchestrate simulator execution, configuration and lifecycle management in cloud environments.
• Design clean interfaces between cloud services and the core C++/Python simulator runtime for control, data exchange and monitoring.
• Develop customer‑facing workflows and APIs that enable personalization of simulation environments, scenarios, vehicles and behaviors.
• Implement full‑stack features using TypeScript and React to expose simulator capabilities through web interfaces.
• Ensure the platform is secure, observable, scalable and reliable for multi‑tenant production workloads.

Required profile

• Strong professional experience building backend and distributed systems in production.
• Proficiency in Python and C++ with ability to integrate performance‑sensitive native code with cloud services.
• Experience with modern frontend development using TypeScript and React.
• Hands‑on experience with cloud platforms (AWS), container orchestration (Kubernetes) and relational databases (PostgreSQL).
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across simulator, autonomy and product teams.

Required skills

• Python
• C++
• TypeScript
• React
• GraphQL or similar API paradigms
• AWS
• Kubernetes
• PostgreSQL
• Go (bonus)
• Rust (bonus)
• Three.js / WebGL (bonus)
• Temporal (bonus)