Base Salary
$150k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture, technical health, and strategic direction of systems supporting Manufacturing Execution, Supply Chain, Finance, Parts Traceability, and Inventory.
- Define APIs, data models, service boundaries, metrics, SLAs, and operational runbooks for high-availability services.
- Build resilient integrations between digital services and physical hardware tooling, including support for intermittent network connectivity.
- Participate in on-call rotations, lead incident response, conduct postmortems, and improve production reliability.
- Work on the manufacturing floor and with supply chain and flight operations teams to prototype workflows and drive adoption of operational tools.
- Mentor peers and improve CI/CD and automated testing practices for safe, repeatable deployments.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of professional experience developing and maintaining full-stack production systems at scale, or equivalent technical mastery.
- Strong ability to understand user needs, identify root causes, design pragmatic solutions, and balance business value with technical simplicity.
- Experience designing maintainable systems, modeling data, making technical tradeoffs, and delivering high-impact software.
- Experience with Python, Go, PostgreSQL, React, Kafka, gRPC, AWS, Grafana, and Honeycomb, or the ability to learn new tools quickly.
- Experience defining service health metrics and reliability goals, creating runbooks, participating in on-call rotations, and improving systems through incident reviews.
- Track record of measurable results such as reducing downtime or manual intervention and increasing operational throughput.
- Willingness to work regularly on-site, including five days per week locally in an office, manufacturing floor, or test/commercial operations site.
- Willingness to travel up to 15% annually.
- Ability to work decisively and maintain correctness in a safety-critical, hardware-integrated environment.
Benefits
- Starting cash range of $150,000-$230,000.
- Potential equity compensation, overtime pay, discretionary annual or performance bonuses, and sales incentives.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, paid time off, and other benefits.
- Work authorization sponsorship is available; U.S. citizenship is not required.
- Regular on-site work is required, with up to 15% annual travel.
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About Zipline
Zipline was founded to create the first logistics system that serves all humans equally. Our aim is to solve the world’s most urgent and complex access challenges. Leveraging expertise in robotics and autonomy, Zipline designs, manufactures and operates the world’s largest automated delivery system. Zipline serves tens of millions of people around the world and is making good on the promise of building an equitable and more resilient global supply chain. From powering Rwanda’s national blood delivery network and Ghana’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution, to providing on-demand home delivery for Walmart and enabling leading healthcare providers to bring care into the home in the United States, Zipline is transforming the way goods move. By transitioning to clean, electric, instant logistics, we can decarbonize delivery, decrease road congestion, and reduce fossil fuel consumption and air pollution, while providing equitable access for billions of people. The technology is complex but the idea is simple: a teleportation service that delivers what you need, when you need it. Zipline is inspiring people, governments, and businesses to imagine what is possible when goods can move as seamlessly as information. To join the team, check out our career page: https://flyzipline.com/careers/