Senior Full Stack Software Engineer, Zipline
Application Software
$180-270k
Transforming the way goods move
Be an early applicant
Transforming the way goods move
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$180-270k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build the world's first logistics system that serves all people equally.
Role
Who you are
- Have experience building and shipping production software systems
- Bring strong full-stack fundamentals across frontend, backend, services, and data
- Can turn ambiguous, high-stakes problems into simple, reliable software
- Combine product instinct with systems judgment
- Care deeply about reliability, correctness, usability, and operational trust
- Enjoy working directly with users and stakeholders to understand real workflows
- Want to shape architecture and product direction, not just implement scoped features
- Are excited to use modern AI tooling to increase velocity while maintaining strong engineering rigor
- Our current stack includes Go, Python, React, gRPC, Kafka, PostgreSQL, AWS, Bazel, Grafana, and Honeycomb, but we care more about your ability to learn quickly and solve the right problems than your experience with any specific tool
- 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!
What the job involves
- You’ll own high-impact software across one or more parts of Zipline’s application platform, such as:
- Partner, merchant, and internal operations tools that help teams run the business day to day
- Marketplace, fulfillment, billing, and support systems that connect demand, delivery, and financial correctness
- Network operations software for simulation, real-time visibility, intervention, orchestration, maintenance, and asset health
- Enterprise systems that power manufacturing, supply chain, inventory, traceability, finance, quality, and field operations
- You’ll work closely with the people who use these systems every day, from operators and field teams to manufacturing, supply chain, finance, commercial, product, and partner teams
- You’ll identify ambiguous problems, design durable systems, build production software end to end, and drive adoption
- This team builds the software backbone of Zipline’s autonomous logistics network, turning complex real-world operations into reliable systems that scale
- You’ll solve problems like:
- How do we give operators and partners real-time visibility into a complex physical network?
- How do we keep the network moving when demand shifts, weather changes, assets degrade, or capacity gets tight?
- How do we build financial and operational systems where every transaction, part, order, and aircraft state is traceable?
- How do we automate workflows across manufacturing, supply chain, fulfillment, and field operations without losing correctness?
- How do we design software that scales across countries, metros, verticals, and millions of deliveries?
- These are production systems with immediate operational and business consequences. You’ll have real ownership, make technical and product decisions, and help shape how Zipline scales
Our take
Zipline is reinventing how the world moves goods - one flight at a time. What started as a bold idea to deliver life-saving medical supplies by drones has grown into the world's first logistics network designed to serve everyone, everywhere. From rushing blood and vaccines to remote clinics, to dropping off everyday essential for Walmart customers, Ziplines's autonomous drones are proving that fast, reliable delivery doesn't have to be limited by roads or geography.
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. Beyond government partnerships, Zipline has its sight set on everyday consumers, preparing to launch commercial deliveries straight to individuals houses. With its Walmart collaboration expanding and even Chipotle orders taking to the skies in Texas, Zipline isn't just redefining delivery - it's aiming to reach every corner of commerce, with a future that looks as bright as its ambitions.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
34% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 12 rounds)
Mar 2026
$200m
SERIES H
Jan 2026
$600m
SERIES H
Total funding: $2.1bn
Company HQ
South San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Keller Rinaudo Cliffton
(Co-Founder & CEO)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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