Senior Software Engineer - DevOps Engineer

ZipLine • South San Francisco, CA

68d • $170,000 - $210,000

About The Position

Zipline's software team is dedicated to rapidly delivering safety-critical software for our delivery drones. As a small team of software engineers, we build the essential tools that ensure a seamless development process. In this role, you will collaborate closely with software engineers across various domains, including autonomy, firmware, flight software, avionics, and simulation. Your responsibilities will involve enhancing our CI/CD system, empowering teams to gain deeper insights from their PR workflows, and maintaining a smooth development flow. This position offers a dynamic blend of high-level strategic planning, such as identifying key investments and evaluating new tools, and deep dives into our codebase for debugging and improvements. You will also engage in customer-centric work, partnering with other software engineers on critical infrastructure, designing new pipelines, and facilitating code migrations to new platforms.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• Own our CI/CD pipelines
• Maintain observability stack
• Improve the speed and reliability of our CI/CD pipeline
• Collaborate with engineers to materialize their CI requirements
• Implement and operate bazel remote execution for custom hardware and cloud native environments
• 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
• Build bots and automation that delight the team

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
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees