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Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise Systems

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Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise Systems in USA

  • Zipline
  • Full time
  • Email
  • South San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

  • Own the architecture, technical health, and strategic direction of systems supporting Manufacturing Execution, Supply Chain, Finance, Parts Traceability, and Inventory.
  • Define APIs, data models, service boundaries, metrics, SLAs, and operational runbooks for high-availability services.
  • Build resilient integrations between digital services and physical hardware tooling, including support for intermittent network connectivity.
  • Participate in on-call rotations, lead incident response, conduct postmortems, and improve production reliability.
  • Work on the manufacturing floor and with supply chain and flight operations teams to prototype workflows and drive adoption of operational tools.
  • Mentor peers and improve CI/CD and automated testing practices for safe, repeatable deployments.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of professional experience developing and maintaining full-stack production systems at scale, or equivalent technical mastery.
  • Strong ability to understand user needs, identify root causes, design pragmatic solutions, and balance business value with technical simplicity.
  • Experience designing maintainable systems, modeling data, making technical tradeoffs, and delivering high-impact software.
  • Experience with Python, Go, PostgreSQL, React, Kafka, gRPC, AWS, Grafana, and Honeycomb, or the ability to learn new tools quickly.
  • Experience defining service health metrics and reliability goals, creating runbooks, participating in on-call rotations, and improving systems through incident reviews.
  • Track record of measurable results such as reducing downtime or manual intervention and increasing operational throughput.
  • Willingness to work regularly on-site, including five days per week locally in an office, manufacturing floor, or test/commercial operations site.
  • Willingness to travel up to 15% annually.
  • Ability to work decisively and maintain correctness in a safety-critical, hardware-integrated environment.

Benefits

  • Starting cash range of $150,000-$230,000.
  • Potential equity compensation, overtime pay, discretionary annual or performance bonuses, and sales incentives.
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance, paid time off, and other benefits.
  • Work authorization sponsorship is available; U.S. citizenship is not required.
  • Regular on-site work is required, with up to 15% annual travel.

Salary: $150k - $230k/yr

Zipline

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