Zipline

Senior Software Engineer - Maps Platform

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3 hours ago
South San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level / Senior / Staff+
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$160k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and operate mapping infrastructure that serves geographic data, features, and map-driven services.
  • Design pipelines that ingest, process, and serve large-scale geospatial datasets with strong accuracy, consistency, and availability.
  • Ship reliable production services and APIs supporting human workflows and autonomous systems.
  • Own projects end to end from raw data ingestion through production operations.
  • Develop data models, data-quality systems, and validation logic for production systems.
  • Integrate systems across autonomy, routing, simulation, operations, and other cross-functional domains.
  • Use AI-assisted engineering workflows while maintaining rigorous system design and data-quality standards.

Requirements

  • Experience building and operating large-scale data pipelines.
  • Track record of shipping reliable services and APIs.
  • Experience working with large datasets and designing reliable data-processing logic.
  • Familiarity with data modeling, data quality, and production validation.
  • Strong backend or distributed-systems engineering fundamentals.
  • Ability to drive projects end to end and collaborate across functions.
  • Experience with geospatial systems, mapping technologies, or GIS tooling is a plus but not required.
  • Ability to learn technologies quickly and focus on solving the right problems.

Benefits

  • Benefits may include equity compensation, discretionary annual or performance bonuses, medical, dental, and vision insurance, and paid time off.
  • The position may be hired at the Software Engineer II, Senior Software Engineer, or Staff Software Engineer level based on experience, skills, and demonstrated scope.

Categories

BackendData Engineering
Zipline

About Zipline

1,001-5,000 employees

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/

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