Senior Software Engineer, Zipline

• 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

• 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

• Generous parental leave
• Generous vacation policy
• Monthly wellness stipend
• Monthly team events
• Healthcare, vision, and dental
• Healthy, delicious meals and snacks
• Dog-friendly offices

Total funding: $813.7m

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.