
Staff Software Engineer - Security - Skydio - Remote - Global
Staff Software Engineer
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Job Description
As a Staff Software Engineer - Security at Skydio, you will partner closely with 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.
Company Information
| Location | Active listings |
|---|---|
| Remote - Global | 78 |
| Remote | 8 |
| Tampere, Finland | 5 |
| Remote - Finland | 3 |
| Zurich, Switzerland | 1 |
| Remote - Switzerland | 1 |
| Remote - Germany | 1 |
| Role type | Active listings |
|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 6 |
| Autonomy Engineer | 6 |
| Solutions Engineer | 6 |
| Autonomy Engineer Intern | 4 |
| Product Manager | 4 |
| Customer Success Manager | 3 |
| Enterprise Account Manager | 3 |
| Program Manager | 2 |
| Senior Software Engineer | 2 |
| Electrical Engineer | 2 |
| Technical Recruiter | 2 |
| Embedded Software Engineer | 2 |
| Human Resources Specialist | 2 |
| RF Design Engineer | 1 |
| Support | 1 |
| Workplace Experience Coordinator | 1 |
| Service Coordinator | 1 |
| Supply Chain Specialist | 1 |
| Product Management Director | 1 |
| Data Engineer | 1 |
| Camera Test Engineer | 1 |
| Designer | 1 |
| Product Quality Engineer | 1 |
| Repair Program Manager | 1 |
| Hardware Test and Reliability Engineer | 1 |
| PCB Layout Engineer | 1 |
| Autonomy Data Curation Engineer | 1 |
| Customer Support Representative | 1 |
| Senior Technical Recruiter | 1 |
| Product Marketing | 1 |
| Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst | 1 |
| Data Analyst | 1 |
| Supplier Quality Engineer | 1 |
| Systems Integration and Test Engineer | 1 |
| Engineering Manager | 1 |
| Manufacturing Business Process Intern | 1 |
| Autonomy Software Engineer | 1 |
| Deployment Coordinator | 1 |
| Growth Marketing Director | 1 |
| Logistics Coordinator | 1 |
| Business Recruiter | 1 |
| Deployment Engineer | 1 |
| Supply Chain Manager | 1 |
| Production Supervisor | 1 |
| Hardware Operations Program Manager | 1 |
| Supply Chain Intern | 1 |
| Electrical Engineer Intern | 1 |
| Sales Representative | 1 |
| Wireless Hardware Engineer | 1 |
| Revenue Operations Engineer | 1 |
| Technical Support Specialist | 1 |
| Product Design Engineer | 1 |
| Electronics Engineer | 1 |
| Aviation Regulatory Program | 1 |
| Coordinator | 1 |
| Head of Warehouse & Logistics Operations | 1 |
| Communications Manager | 1 |
| Field Marketing Event Manager | 1 |
| Support Specialist | 1 |
| Mission Success Operations | 1 |
| Full Stack Developer | 1 |
| Production Manager | 1 |
| Proposal Analyst | 1 |
| Role level | Active listings |
|---|---|
| Mid-Level | 77 |
| Mid-level | 1 |
| Manager | 1 |
Skydio appears in 97 indexed job postings in JobCrawls' Finland dataset since October 2023. In that historical index, the strongest location signals for this employer are Remote - Global, Remote, and Tampere, Finland.
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Job Details
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in cloud security, platform security, infrastructure security, or a related security-focused engineering role
- Strong experience working in AWS, ideally in multi-tenant cloud environments
- Strong coding ability and comfort building and maintaining tooling in languages such as Python or Go
- Experience reviewing system designs and RFCs and providing clear, actionable security guidance
- Working knowledge of SIEM, vulnerability management, and related security tooling
- Comfort operating across both technical design and hands-on implementation in a role that spans both strategy and execution
