2 months 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.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
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.