About Zipline
Do 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 national 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.
The Data Platform team at Zipline manages the entire lifecycle of vehicle-centric data, from tools for visualizing logs to enabling data pipelines for collection, annotation, model training, and deployment.
We’re seeking a Senior Software Engineer with strong software engineering fundamentals and expertise in building scalable systems for data processing, machine learning pipelines, and monitoring. Your work will directly enhance the performance and efficiency of Zipline’s drones, operations, and global services.
In this role, you’ll design and implement robust, maintainable systems that meet Zipline’s end-to-end data needs. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you’ll deliver solutions that drive actionable insights and informed decisions. You’ll also lead efforts to ensure data quality, reliability, and scalability, building infrastructure that grows with the company’s innovation.
If you’re passionate about solving challenging technical problems, leveraging software engineering to build impactful systems, and shaping the future of Zipline’s data operations, we’d love to talk!
What You'll Do
- Design and implement robust data systems that integrate data from various internal and external systems into our data warehouse, ensuring efficient data processing and accessibility.
- Contribute to state-of-the-art data infrastructure, including distributed training, continuous model integration, data management, and production system evaluation.
- Build and maintain scalable software infrastructure to enable machine learning algorithms to leverage Zipline’s large-scale fleet data.
- Design and scale deployment systems for data and ML pipelines supporting Perception, ensuring reproducibility, maintainability, and efficiency.
- Build monitoring systems to track data quality, pipeline performance, and model behavior in production environments.
What You'll Bring
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including expertise in Python, C++, and Rust in production settings.
- A generalist mindset with the ability to work across platforms, from cloud compute services to embedded systems.
- Familiar with developing using major cloud provider products and IaC concepts.
- Experienced in applying best practices for alerting, observability, and security for production applications
- Experience with distributed systems, including Kubernetes for containerized applications and streaming platforms like Apache Kafka.
- Familiarity with machine learning concepts and operating models in production environments
- Experience in production data systems including validation, quality reporting, and data security
What Else You Need to Know
The starting cash range for this role is $160,000 - 190,000. 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 race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other characteristics protected by state, federal or local law or our other policies.
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!
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Zipline South San Francisco, California, USA Office
South San Francisco, CA, United States
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