Staff Full Stack Software Engineer, Application Software

Zipline•South San Francisco, CA

1d•$200,000 - $270,000

About The Position

Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service, focused on serving all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine, and essential goods anytime, anywhere. They design, build, and operate the world’s largest autonomous logistics system, making deliveries globally. The company operates on four continents, completes a delivery every 30 seconds, and has achieved millions of deliveries. Zipline's system strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and provides significant time savings. With over 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is transforming access to healthcare, consumer products, and food worldwide. They are seeking practical problem solvers who thrive on real-world challenges and rapid growth, motivated by building systems with a direct, meaningful impact on people's lives and scaling the future of logistics. The Application Software team at Zipline builds the products and platforms that power the autonomous delivery network, connecting customers, partners, aircraft, operators, manufacturing, supply chain, finance, and field operations into a scalable system. These systems encompass partner onboarding, marketplace operations, fleet visibility, fulfillment, billing, support, manufacturing workflows, inventory, asset health, and operational control. The work is broad, full-stack, and consequential, directly shaping how Zipline serves customers, supports partners, scales operations, and runs its global autonomous logistics network.

Requirements

Experience building and shipping production software systems
Strong full-stack fundamentals across frontend, backend, services, and data
Ability to turn ambiguous, high-stakes problems into simple, reliable software
Combination of product instinct with systems judgment
Deep care for reliability, correctness, usability, and operational trust
Enjoy working directly with users and stakeholders to understand real workflows
Desire to shape architecture and product direction, not just implement scoped features
Excitement to use modern AI tooling to increase velocity while maintaining strong engineering rigor
Ability to learn quickly and solve the right problems

Nice To Haves

Experience with Go, Python, React, gRPC, Kafka, PostgreSQL, AWS, Bazel, Grafana, and Honeycomb

Responsibilities

Own high-impact software across one or more parts of Zipline’s application platform, such as partner, merchant, and internal operations tools.
Develop marketplace, fulfillment, billing, and support systems that connect demand, delivery, and financial correctness.
Build network operations software for simulation, real-time visibility, intervention, orchestration, maintenance, and asset health.
Create enterprise systems that power manufacturing, supply chain, inventory, traceability, finance, quality, and field operations.
Work closely with users and stakeholders, including operators, field teams, manufacturing, supply chain, finance, commercial, product, and partner teams.
Identify ambiguous problems, design durable systems, build production software end to end, and drive adoption.
Solve complex problems related to real-time visibility in a physical network, network resilience under changing conditions, traceable financial and operational systems, automated workflows across various operations, and software scalability across diverse geographies and delivery volumes.