Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Zipline
$160-200k
3-5 days a week in office (South San Francisco, CA)
Transforming the way goods move
Open for applications
Transforming the way goods move
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$160-200k
3-5 days a week in office (South San Francisco, CA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To open up access to emergency medical care to everyone in the world.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of professional experience designing, implementing and deploying cloud platforms to support internal and external business needs
- Desire to take on a foundational technical role and guide the direction of cloud infrastructure
- Hold a high bar for technical excellence across the organization
- Strong technical expertise in one of Deployments, AWS, Kafka, or Monitoring/Logging
- You can communicate effectively (verbally and in writing) and build strong relationships with other software teams
- You have the grit, resourcefulness, and resilience to thrive in novel, uncertain and constantly-changing business and regulatory environments
- Must be eligible to work in the US
Desirable
- Experience working with AWS
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Experience with event driven architectures (i.e. Kafka)
What the job involves
- Lead foundational technical initiatives for our budding cloud infrastructure
- Lean into and develop our story for software deployments, infrastructure as code, monitoring, and inter-service communication
- Evaluate new technologies and solutions to our infrastructure challenges and drive forward adoptions
- Partner with teams of developers to build out best practices around cloud infrastructure and services
- Scale our ability to manage services by writing software, administering systems, and evangelizing best practices across the software stack
- Participate in an on call rotation centered around our core cloud infrastructure
- Set a high technical bar for our interview processes
Our take
Zipline is transforming the way goods move by creating the first logistics system that serves all humans equally via a drone delivery service. As the first emergency drone logistics operation, Zipline is fundamentally changing how we transport emergency medical supplies and has expanded into commercial deliveries. It's partnered with several major companies, including Walmart.
Zipline has an edge over potential future competitors as the company has thousands of hours and over 35 million miles of flight to prove the system is safe and effective. It’s also one of the first companies to receive a full commercial operating certificate, putting Zipline in a strong position to continuously branch out to other markets.
The unicorn company operates globally and has signed its first government contract with Rwanda to provide up to 2 million drone deliveries by 2029. It is also aiming to start commercial deliveries to individual households in the near future. With big companies such as Amazon and Walmart examining “instant” delivery options, Zipline has a proven track record and the equipment and logistics in place to provide such services. 2023 funding pushed Zipline's valuation to a staggering $4.2 billion, indicating a bright future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Apr 2023
$330m
SERIES F
Jul 2021
$250m
SERIES E
Total funding: $813.7m
Company benefits
- Generous parental leave
- Generous vacation policy
- Monthly wellness stipend
- Monthly team events
- Healthcare, vision, and dental
- Healthy, delicious meals and snacks
- Dog-friendly offices
Company values
- Customer obsession - The standard of care
- Ownership - Getting the job done
- Transparency - Breeds trust
- Continuous improvement - Tackling hard problems
- Serve Your Species - Empowering one another
Company HQ
South San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Having studied Economics and Biotechnology at Harvard, they worked for almost 11 months as a self-employed rock climber. They combined their academic and practical experience to co-found Zipline in July 2011.
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