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Senior Backend Engineer - Fleet Core

Zipline

$170,000 - $210,000
Jun 10, 2025
South San Francisco, CA, USA
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Zipline is looking to build and manage a fleet of autonomous aircraft to transform the way goods move and solve complex access challenges.

Requirements

  • Experience building complex, distributed systems that operate under production loads
  • Proven ownership of systems and the ability to represent their design and behavior across teams
  • Solid understanding of microservice design principles
  • Strong test automation skills to support maintainable, extensible code
  • Solid foundation in designing reliable, low-latency distributed services
  • Expertise in Python, Go, or Rust
  • Experience using Kubernetes, CDK, Docker, Kafka, AWS, and other cloud technologies

Responsibilities

  • Design and build systems to orchestrate a fleet of autonomous Zips, focusing on scalability and reliability
  • Expand and evolve our service architecture
  • Collaborate with flight software and user-facing application teams to define robust, clear service interfaces
  • Build tools for simulation, integration testing, and observability of distributed services

Other

  • Navigate ambiguity, take on diverse technical challenges, and work effectively with other engineers and stakeholders to achieve impressive results
  • Ability to work with a generalist engineering mindset, ready to dive in and contribute across many facets of Zipline’s software