Staff Full Stack Software Engineer, Application Software

Zipline•South San Francisco, CA

3d•$200,000 - $270,000

About The Position

Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service, aiming to serve all humans equally by providing 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. Their system strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and saves people time. With over 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining 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 meaningful impact and scaling the future of logistics. They value individuals who sculpt from first principles, enjoy facing adversity, and can achieve the impossible at record speeds.

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
Combine product instinct with systems judgment
Care deeply about 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
Excited to use modern AI tooling to increase velocity while maintaining strong engineering rigor

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; marketplace, fulfillment, billing, and support systems; network operations software; and enterprise systems.
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.
Turn complex real-world operations into reliable systems that scale.
Solve problems related to real-time visibility of a complex physical network, network operation during demand shifts or asset degradation, building traceable financial and operational systems, automating workflows across various operations, and designing software that scales globally.
Make technical and product decisions and help shape how Zipline scales.