Senior Software Engineer - Maps Platform

Zipline•South San Francisco, CA

10h

About The Position

Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service, aiming to provide access to food, medicine, and essential goods globally. They design, build, and operate an autonomous logistics system, having completed millions of deliveries across four continents. The company focuses on strengthening supply chains, reducing congestion, and improving access to healthcare and consumer products. This role is crucial for building the mapping infrastructure that powers every Zipline flight. Maps Platform engineers are responsible for creating the backbone that delivers geographic data, features, and map-driven services to Zipline’s products and operators. The position involves ensuring map data is fast, accurate, and reliable for both human workflows (like map editors and operator dashboards) and autonomous systems (such as routing and onboard systems). It combines backend, data, platform engineering, and user interface design with a focus on pragmatic production ownership. The role offers unique opportunities to own the foundation of flight intelligence, tackle massive data challenges with strict accuracy requirements, manage end-to-end system ownership from data ingestion to production, make cross-functional impact, and leverage AI-accelerated engineering workflows.

Requirements

Experience building and operating large-scale data pipelines
A track record shipping reliable services and APIs
Extreme ownership mindset with the ability to drive projects end-to-end
Experience working with large datasets and designing reliable data processing logic
Familiarity with data modeling, data quality, and validation in production systems
Comfort working with cross-functional teams and integrating systems across domains
Strong backend or distributed systems engineering fundamentals

Nice To Haves

Experience with geospatial systems, mapping technologies, or GIS tooling

Responsibilities

Build the mapping infrastructure that powers every Zipline flight
Build the backbone that serves geographic data, features, and map-driven services to Zipline’s products and operators
Make map data fast, accurate, and reliable for both human workflows (map editors, operator dashboards, regulatory UIs) and autonomous systems (routing, onboard systems)
Design pipelines that process and serve large-scale geospatial datasets with strict requirements for accuracy, consistency, and availability
Build systems that are critical to real-world operations, from raw data ingestion to production services