Senior Software Engineer, Zipline
Developer Productivity, Bazel
$170-210k
3-5 days a week in office
Transforming the way goods move
Open for applications
Transforming the way goods move
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$170-210k
3-5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To open up access to emergency medical care to everyone in the world.
Role
Who you are
- 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 the job involves
- Zipline’s software team delivers safety-critical software at lightning speed. A small team of software engineers builds the tooling that enables development to run like a well-oiled machine
- In this role, you will work closely with software engineers across all areas of the org: autonomy, firmware, flight software, avionics, and simulation
- You will work on leveling up our build system, enabling teams to gather more insight from our CI/CD pipeline, and keeping development flowing
- At times your job will be high-level, identifying strategic investments or deciding which new tools to use
- At times your job will require you to be deep in our codebase, debugging and improving it
- And at times, your job will be customer-centric, pairing with other software engineers on critical infrastructure, designing new pipelines, and migrating codebases to new platforms
- Own our Bazel build system
- Migrate legacy build tools (CMake, cargo) towards bazel
- Create and maintain hermetic bazel toolchains for our own linux distribution
- Implement and operate bazel RBE for custom hardware and cloud native environments
- Improve the speed and reliability of our CI/CD pipeline
- Own one-off tools, for example custom workflows or a build insights dashboard
- Build tooling to support engineering test flights
- Improve the code review process
- Create reusable libraries and refactor code to improve the team’s overall productivity
- Build bots and automation that delight the team
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
Insights
34% employee growth in 12 months
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 HQ
South San Francisco, CA
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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