Senior Software Engineer – Developer Productivity

South San Francisco, California, USAFull-TimeSeniorSoftware Engineering

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About The Role

  • Zipline's software team is dedicated to rapidly delivering safety-critical software for our delivery drones. As a small team of software engineers, we build the essential tools that ensure a seamless development process. In this role, you will collaborate closely with software engineers across various domains, including autonomy, firmware, flight software, avionics, and simulation.
  • Your responsibilities will involve enhancing our CI/CD system, empowering teams to gain deeper insights from their PR workflows, and maintaining a smooth development flow. This position offers a dynamic blend of high-level strategic planning, such as identifying key investments and evaluating new tools, and deep dives into our codebase for debugging and improvements. You will also engage in customer-centric work, partnering with other software engineers on critical infrastructure, designing new pipelines, and facilitating code migrations to new platforms.

What You'll Do

  • Own our monorepo CI/CD pipelines (Github Action, Buildkite)
  • Maintain observability stack (Datadog, Grafana)
  • Improve the speed and reliability of our CI/CD pipeline (Bazel caching and remote execution)
  • Collaborate with engineers to materialize their CI requirements
  • Implement and operate bazel remote execution for custom hardware and cloud native environments
  • Build tooling to support engineering test flights
  • Improve the code review process and align company wide
  • Build bots and automation that delight the team

What You'll Bring

  • 8+ years of experience in a software development role at engineering-led companies
  • Expertise in developer tooling, modern tools and best practices
  • A generalist mindset, with excitement to own problems end-to-end
  • A customer-centric mindset, with an ability to quickly embed with other engineers and regularly pair program
  • Strong, defensible opinions on what makes an excellent software development experience

Job Summary

CompanyZipline
LocationSouth San Francisco, California, USA
TypeFull-Time
LevelSenior
DomainSoftware Engineering