Senior Software Engineer – Datacenter Automation

Zipline • South San Francisco, CA

95d • $170,000 - $210,000

About The Position

Zipline’s software team delivers safety-critical software at lightning speed. A small team of engineers builds and maintains the datacenter and automation systems that power our global operations. In this role, you will be responsible for the full lifecycle of our datacenter stack—from bare metal provisioning and hypervisor management to Kubernetes clusters and infrastructure automation. You’ll be hands-on, ensuring reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our compute and storage systems, while collaborating with other engineers to define best practices, improve tooling, and support the systems that keep development and operations running smoothly. At times your work will be high-level, shaping technical direction or identifying the right automation tools and standards to adopt. At other times, you’ll be deep in the details—racking and stacking, tuning clusters, debugging infrastructure issues, or automating deployments. Above all, you’ll be a trusted partner to engineers across the org, building resilient systems that accelerate Zipline’s mission.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in a software development role at engineering-led companies
• Hands-on experience across datacenter operations: rack & stack, networking, bare metal provisioning, hypervisors, storage clusters, Kubernetes, and infrastructure automation
• A generalist mindset — broad knowledge, curiosity, and breadth of experiences
• Excitement about enabling other engineers: you thrive on building reliable systems and collaborating across teams
• Ability to develop, document, and enforce best practices in infrastructure operations

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve Zipline’s datacenter infrastructure stack: compute, storage, networking, and Kubernetes
• Automate provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management for bare metal and virtualized systems
• Deploy, maintain, and scale hypervisors, storage clusters, and containerized workloads
• Partner with engineers across the org to deliver reliable, automated infrastructure that meets diverse requirements
• Build and maintain automation workflows, dashboards, and tools to streamline datacenter operations
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues across hardware, virtualization, and orchestration layers

Benefits

• Equity compensation
• Discretionary annual or performance bonuses
• Sales incentives
• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Paid time off

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees