Software Engineer Intern

About the Role

As an Intern on the Cloud Platform and Infrastructure Team, you’ll help build and scale the cloud systems that make autonomous flight possible.

Key Responsibilities

• Tackling scalability and deployment in both cloud and air-gapped environments.
• Designing and improving core cloud infrastructure and CI/CD systems.
• Enhancing telemetry, observability, and developer productivity.
• Building a system for allowing product teams to manage feature flags and rollouts of functionality to customers.
• Profiling server and backend system workloads, and optimizing performance or resource utilization.
• Developing a test framework to allow developers to simulate certain vehicle states and test application behavior.
• Developing and packaging a small form factor Skydio cloud offering for use in airgapped or edge environments.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Solid computer science fundamentals.
• Meaningful project and/or internship experience developing complex web applications or backend data systems.
• Proficiency with C/C++, Python, Golang, and/or Javascript/Typescript.
• Familiarity with REST-ful APIs, Linux operating system configuration, build tools, relational databases (e.g. Postgres, MySQL) and caching systems (Redis, Memcached).
• Understanding of cloud service offerings (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure), deployment techniques, and configuration management.

Qualifications

• Junior, senior, or master’s student.
• Highly curious and resourceful candidate, capable of using tools and AI at their disposal to accelerate understanding and productivity.