The Senior Software Engineer will manage Zipline's datacenter infrastructure, focusing on automation, reliability, and collaboration across teams to enhance operations.
About Zipline
Do you want to change the world? Zipline is on a mission to transform the way goods move. Our aim is to solve the world’s most urgent and complex access challenges by building, manufacturing and operating the first instant delivery and logistics system that serves all humans equally, wherever they are. From powering Rwanda’s national blood delivery network and Ghana’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution, to providing on-demand home delivery for Walmart, to enabling healthcare providers to bring care directly to U.S. homes, we are transforming the way things move for businesses, governments and consumers. The technology is complex but the idea is simple: a teleportation service that delivers what you need, when you need it. Through our technology that includes robotics and autonomy, we are decarbonizing delivery, decreasing road congestion, and reducing fossil fuel consumption and air pollution, while providing equitable access to billions of people and building a more resilient global supply chain.
Join Zipline and help us to make good on our promise to build an equitable and more resilient global supply chain for billions of people.
About You and The Role
Zipline’s software team delivers safety-critical software at lightning speed. A small team of engineers builds and maintains the datacenter and automation systems that power our global operations. In this role, you will be responsible for the full lifecycle of our datacenter stack—from bare metal provisioning and hypervisor management to Kubernetes clusters and infrastructure automation.
You’ll be hands-on, ensuring reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our compute and storage systems, while collaborating with other engineers to define best practices, improve tooling, and support the systems that keep development and operations running smoothly.
At times your work will be high-level, shaping technical direction or identifying the right automation tools and standards to adopt. At other times, you’ll be deep in the details—racking and stacking, tuning clusters, debugging infrastructure issues, or automating deployments. Above all, you’ll be a trusted partner to engineers across the org, building resilient systems that accelerate Zipline’s mission.
What You'll Do- Own and evolve Zipline’s datacenter infrastructure stack: compute, storage, networking, and Kubernetes
- Automate provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management for bare metal and virtualized systems
- Deploy, maintain, and scale hypervisors, storage clusters, and containerized workloads
- Partner with engineers across the org to deliver reliable, automated infrastructure that meets diverse requirements
- Build and maintain automation workflows, dashboards, and tools to streamline datacenter operations
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues across hardware, virtualization, and orchestration layers
- 8+ years of experience in a software development role at engineering-led companies
- Hands-on experience across datacenter operations: rack & stack, networking, bare metal provisioning, hypervisors, storage clusters, Kubernetes, and infrastructure automation
- A generalist mindset — broad knowledge, curiosity, and breadth of experiences
- Excitement about enabling other engineers: you thrive on building reliable systems and collaborating across teams
- Ability to develop, document, and enforce best practices in infrastructure operations
This role is an in-office opportunity based out of our South San Francisco HQ.
The starting cash range for this role is $170,000-210,000. Please note that this is a target, starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role. The final cash pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors, including a specific candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, working location, and projected impact. The total compensation package for this role may also include: equity compensation; discretionary annual or performance bonuses; sales incentives; benefits such as medical, dental and vision insurance; paid time off; and more.
Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other characteristics protected by state, federal or local law or our other policies.
We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!
Top Skills
Hypervisors
Kubernetes
Storage Clusters
Zipline South San Francisco, California, USA Office
South San Francisco, CA, United States
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