2 days ago
South San Francisco, CA, USASenior / Staff+
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$180k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate foundational infrastructure for engineering teams across Zipline.
- Own platform capabilities covering deployments, infrastructure as code, observability, networking, service-to-service communication, and runtime environments.
- Operate and evolve Zipline-managed Kubernetes clusters, including lifecycle, reliability, scalability, security, and developer experience.
- Build software and tooling that make infrastructure safer, faster, and easier for engineering teams to use.
- Partner with product, robotics, autonomy, fleet management, data, and operations teams to develop durable platform abstractions.
- Improve reliability and debuggability for distributed systems spanning cloud services, physical infrastructure, and global operations.
- Evaluate technologies pragmatically and participate in on-call, design reviews, operational reviews, documentation, mentoring, and interviews.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional experience designing, implementing, and deploying cloud platforms for internal and external business needs.
- Hands-on experience operating production systems, not only provisioning them.
- Experience across cloud APIs, Kubernetes controllers, Linux, networking, storage, and runtime behavior.
- Experience with automation, software-defined infrastructure, and reducing repeated manual toil.
- Ability to assess when to use managed services, self-host infrastructure, or build custom tooling.
- Strong distributed-systems debugging skills under time pressure.
- Clear written and verbal communication across software, hardware, operations, and business teams.
- High standards for reliability, security, maintainability, and operational simplicity.
- Eligibility to work in the United States.
- Experience with AWS, self-managed on-premises servers, Kubernetes, or event-driven architectures such as Kafka is preferred.
Benefits
- Benefits may include medical, dental, and vision insurance, paid time off, equity compensation, and discretionary annual or performance bonuses.
Tech Stack
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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.