Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Platform
Zipline
About Zipline
About You and the Role:
Zipline builds and operates fleets of delivery drones to get critical and life-saving products, fast, to where they’re needed. To power this, our software team is building out long term, scalable solutions to expand rapidly, while empowering our world class distribution centers to serve our customers as fast as possible.
In this role, you will be leading software development initiatives that will be used across Zipline's cloud software organization. This includes a centralized event bus that's core to Zipline's operations, authentication and logging libraries, centralized deployment pipelines, integration environments and more. Our ideal candidate is someone who has solid core software engineering skills, thrives in startup environments and has experience delivering products and highly available systems owned by highly skilled engineers.
What You'll Do
- Lead foundational technical initiatives for our cloud software platform
- Lean into and develop our story for software deployments, event bus, authentication layers, and other foundational software components
- Evaluate new technologies and solutions to our core software challenges and drive forward adoptions
- Partner with teams of developers to build out best practices
- Scale our ability to manage services by writing software, administering systems, and evangelizing best practices across the software stack
- Participate in an on call rotation centered around our core cloud infrastructure
- Set a high technical bar for our interview processes
What You'll Bring
- 9+ years of professional experience designing, implementing and deploying core software components used by business critical software teams
- Desire to take on a foundational technical role, guide and support multiple engineering teams
- Hold a high bar for technical excellence across the organization
- Strong technical expertise in one of Deployments or event driven architectures (i.e. Kafka)
- You can communicate effectively (verbally and in writing) and build strong relationships with other software teams
- You have the grit, resourcefulness, and resilience to thrive in novel, uncertain and constantly-changing business and regulatory environments
- Must be eligible to work in the US
Nice to haves
- Experience working with AWS
- Experience with Kubernetes
What Else You Need to Know
The starting cash range for this role is $170,000 - $210,000. Please note that this is a target, starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role. The final cash pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors, including a specific candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, working location, and projected impact. The total compensation package for this role may also include: equity compensation; discretionary annual or performance bonuses; sales incentives; benefits such as medical, dental and vision insurance; paid time off; and more.
