Senior Software Engineer – Datacenter Automation

Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced autonomous delivery service, founded to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to essential goods anytime, anywhere. We design, build, and operate the world’s largest autonomous logistics system, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably. Today, Zipline operates on four continents, makes a delivery somewhere in the world every 30 seconds, and has completed millions of deliveries including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and commercial products. Our customers include healthcare systems, governments, retailers, and global brands who rely on us to save lives, reduce emissions, increase economic opportunity, and provide new logistics services at scale.

Our technology goes beyond drones. We deploy integrated logistics infrastructure that strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and enables instant delivery, transforming how essential goods reach people everywhere. With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe.

We operate at a global scale and are looking for practical problem solvers who thrive on real-world challenges and rapid growth. Our team is motivated by building systems that have a direct, meaningful impact on people’s lives and by scaling the future of logistics.

About You and The Role

Zipline’s software team delivers safety-critical software at lightning speed. A small team of engineers builds and maintains the datacenter and automation systems that power our global operations. In this role, you will be responsible for the full lifecycle of our datacenter stack—from bare metal provisioning and hypervisor management to Kubernetes clusters and infrastructure automation.

You’ll be hands-on, ensuring reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our compute and storage systems, while collaborating with other engineers to define best practices, improve tooling, and support the systems that keep development and operations running smoothly.

At times your work will be high-level, shaping technical direction or identifying the right automation tools and standards to adopt. At other times, you’ll be deep in the details—racking and stacking, tuning clusters, debugging infrastructure issues, or automating deployments. Above all, you’ll be a trusted partner to engineers across the org, building resilient systems that accelerate Zipline’s mission.

What You'll Do

• Own and evolve Zipline’s datacenter infrastructure stack: compute, storage, networking, and Kubernetes
• Automate provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management for bare metal and virtualized systems
• Deploy, maintain, and scale hypervisors, storage clusters, and containerized workloads
• Partner with engineers across the org to deliver reliable, automated infrastructure that meets diverse requirements
• Build and maintain automation workflows, dashboards, and tools to streamline datacenter operations
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues across hardware, virtualization, and orchestration layers

What You'll Bring

• 8+ years of experience in a software development role at engineering-led companies
• Hands-on experience across datacenter operations: rack & stack, networking, bare metal provisioning, hypervisors, storage clusters, Kubernetes, and infrastructure automation
• A generalist mindset — broad knowledge, curiosity, and breadth of experiences
• Excitement about enabling other engineers: you thrive on building reliable systems and collaborating across teams
• Ability to develop, document, and enforce best practices in infrastructure operations

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