Software Engineering Manager – Developer Productivity

Zipline•South San Francisco, CA

12h•$182,000 - $230,000

About The Position

The Software Engineering Manager for Zipline’s Developer Productivity team will lead the team responsible for building the tools and infrastructure that help engineers develop, test, and ship software across FlightSystems and cloud. This role involves owning the team’s roadmap, technical direction, and execution. The work will focus on improving the speed and reliability of CI, expanding the use of remote build execution, simplifying developer workflows, and supporting the long-term evolution of Zipline’s software platform. This is a hands-on leadership role where the manager will grow and coach the team, stay close to technical decisions, and collaborate directly with software, firmware, autonomy, and infrastructure teams to address challenges that slow down engineers.

Requirements

Experience building top-performing software teams
Solid software engineering fundamentals
Deep knowledge of modern build and CI systems, including remote execution, caching, artifact management, and distributed infrastructure
Experience setting technical direction and delivering complex, cross-team projects with measurable results
Obsession with engineering velocity, removing friction, and building great tools
Passion for building strong relationships with stakeholder teams
High-bandwidth communications across many software engineering disciplines
Metric-driven mindset

Nice To Haves

Experience with Bazel, Buildkite, BuildBarn, AWS, Linux, Docker, or large monorepos
Experience with C++, Rust, Python, Go, or TypeScript
Experience supporting robotics, embedded systems, hardware-in-the-loop testing, or safety-critical software
Experience leading major build-system, CI-platform, or repository migrations

Responsibilities

Lead the team responsible for Zipline’s build systems, CI/CD infrastructure, remote execution, and developer tooling
Own the roadmap for improving CI speed, reliability, and developer experience across our monorepo
Support a fast-growing software engineering organization of about 200 people to improve velocity and developer experience
Expand our on-prem remote build execution platform
Work across teams to improve our Bazel build graph
Be a thought leader in simplifying complex CI pipelines
Lead large build system migrations to move more projects into the monorepo’s build system
Set priorities for the developer productivity team by talking with customers to identify pain points, and defining metrics to track productivity
Hire, coach, and develop engineers while building a team culture obsessed with building great developer experiences