2 months ago
Base Salary
$185k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and build secure, scalable paved-road integration patterns connecting AI-enabled applications and internal tools to production systems.
- Design and implement reusable APIs, gateways, middleware, and event-driven integration components.
- Partner with Forward Deployed AI Engineers and application teams to move prototypes into production-ready supported services.
- Approve, revise, or reject integration designs that access protected production boundaries based on operational safety and reliability standards.
- Define and operate safeguards including authentication, authorization, workload isolation, rate limiting, auditability, capacity management, observability, alerting, graceful degradation, and safe failure modes.
- Establish technical standards and governance for AI-enabled access to production and operationally critical systems.
- Create reference implementations, documentation, and developer experiences that encourage secure platform adoption.
- Ensure platform components and integrations have clear ownership, operational expectations, and sustainable support models.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including building and operating production applications at meaningful scale.
- Deep experience designing developer-facing APIs and distributed systems.
- Strong application engineering judgment and a record of translating product, customer, or operational needs into maintainable production software.
- Experience building cloud services and event-driven systems using technologies such as Go, Protobuf, and Kafka.
- Experience designing for reliability, scale, and safe handling of high-volume or unpredictable traffic.
- Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, rate limiting, observability, and operational safety in production applications.
- Collaborative and pragmatic technical leadership skills, including setting high production-readiness standards while helping teams make progress.
- Comfort using AI-assisted development tools and validating, hardening, and operating the resulting systems.
- Experience with abuse-resistant or public-facing APIs, platform engineering, API gateways, service meshes, developer platforms, security engineering, application security, site reliability engineering, incident response, technical governance, internal tools, data systems, AI-enabled applications, logistics, autonomous systems, or other high-reliability services is preferred.
Benefits
- Starting cash range of $185,000-$240,000 per year.
- Potential equity compensation, overtime pay, discretionary annual or performance bonuses, and sales incentives.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance and paid time off may be included.
Tech Stack
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.