Senior Software Engineer (Security)
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- As a Senior Software Engineer - Security at Skydio, you will partner closely with senior security engineers and cross-functional teams to design, review, and build systems that secure our multi-tenant cloud and corporate environments
- You will split your time roughly evenly between architecture and hands-on engineering. On one side, you will review RFCs, shape system design, and advise on initiatives with meaningful security implications
- On the other, you will build and harden internal security tooling end to end. You will play a key role in maturing the systems that protect Skydio’s commercial, government, and DoD customers
- Review RFCs and partner with engineering teams on architectural decisions that have security implications
- Design and build internal security systems end to end, including roadmap areas such as web application firewalls and vulnerability risk management tooling
- Harden and improve security-related production software components as opportunities for better resilience and protection are identified
- Partner with Compliance to translate FedRAMP, SOC 2, Texas RAMP, ISO 27001, and CJIS requirements into practical technical controls
- Improve how we monitor, prioritize, patch, and respond to vulnerabilities across our cloud footprint
- Contribute to authentication and identity systems across cloud and corporate environments, including SSO and SCIM implementations
- Participate in the security team’s on-call rotation
- 5+ years of experience in cloud security, platform security, infrastructure security, or a related security-focused engineering role
- Experience reviewing system designs and RFCs and providing clear, actionable security guidance
- Comfort operating across both technical design and hands-on implementation in a role that spans both strategy and execution
- Strong coding ability and comfort building and maintaining tooling in languages such as Python or Go
- Strong experience working in AWS, ideally in multi-tenant cloud environments
- Working knowledge of SIEM, vulnerability management, and related security tooling
- Experience working in FedRAMP, SOC 2, ISO 27001, Texas RAMP, or CJIS-aligned environments
- Experience building or deeply integrating authentication and identity systems, including SSO, SCIM, and front-door authentication
- Background supporting government, defense, or other highly regulated customers
- Experience with Kubernetes debugging, operations, or automation