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Senior Software Engineer - DevOps Engineer in South San Francisco

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Job DescriptionJob DescriptionAbout ZiplineDo 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 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 The Role

Zipline's software team is dedicated to rapidly delivering safety-critical software for our delivery drones. As a small team of software engineers, we build the essential tools that ensure a seamless development process. In this role, you will collaborate closely with software engineers across various domains, including autonomy, firmware, flight software, avionics, and simulation.

Your responsibilities will involve enhancing our CI/CD system, empowering teams to gain deeper insights from their PR workflows, and maintaining a smooth development flow. This position offers a dynamic blend of high-level strategic planning, such as identifying key investments and evaluating new tools, and deep dives into our codebase for debugging and improvements. You will also engage in customer-centric work, partnering with other software engineers on critical infrastructure, designing new pipelines, and facilitating code migrations to new platforms.

What You'll Do

  • Own our monorepo CI/CD pipelines (Github Action, Buildkite)
  • Maintain observability stack (Datadog, Grafana)
  • Improve the speed and reliability of our CI/CD pipeline (Bazel caching and remote execution)
  • Collaborate with engineers to materialize their CI requirements
  • Implement and operate bazel remote execution for custom hardware and cloud environments
  • Build tooling to support engineering test flights
  • Improve the code review process and align company wide
  • Build bots and automation that delight the team

What You'll Bring

  • 8+ years of experience in a software development role at engineering-led companies
  • Expertise in developer tooling, modern tools and best practices
  • A generalist mindset, with excitement to own problems end-to-end
  • A customer-centric mindset, with an ability to quickly embed with other engineers and regularly pair program
  • Strong, defensible opinions on what makes an excellent software development experience

What Else You Need to Know 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 , , ancestry, , or creed, mental or physical , medical condition, genetic information, (including , childbirth, and related medical conditions), , , expression, , marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other characteristics protected by state, federal or local law or our other policies.We value 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!

If you are interested in applying for this job please press the Apply Button and follow the application process. Energy Jobline wishes you the very best of luck in your next career move.

Senior Software Engineer - DevOps Engineer in South San Francisco

South San Francisco, CA
Full time

Published on 11/16/2025

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