2 months ago
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 designs, builds, and operates autonomous drone delivery systems for healthcare, retail, and public-sector customers. The privately held company runs end-to-end logistics—aircraft, software, and fulfillment—to deliver blood, vaccines, medicines, and consumer goods. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in South San Francisco, Zipline operates across multiple continents; notable work includes Rwanda’s national blood deliveries and U.S. home delivery pilots with Walmart.