Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Company: Zipline
Location: South San Francisco
Posted on: April 1, 2026

Job Description:

About Zipline Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service. We are on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine and 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 to date, including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and retail products. Our customers include the world’s largest and most prominent healthcare systems, governments, retailers, restaurants and global businesses who rely on us to save lives, reduce emissions, increase economic opportunity, and provide delivery from point A to point B as fast as possible. The drone is only 15% of what we’ve built to enable seamless, reliable, global operations. Our system strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and gives people time back. 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. We are seeking people who sculpt from first principles, enjoy facing adversity, and can do the impossible at record breaking speeds. What You'll Do Lead foundational technical initiatives for our budding cloud infrastructure Lean into and develop our story for software deployments, infrastructure as code, monitoring, and inter-service communication Evaluate new technologies and solutions to our infrastructure challenges and drive forward adoptions Partner with teams of developers to build out best practices around cloud infrastructure and services 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 6 years of professional experience designing, implementing and deploying cloud platforms to support internal and external business needs Desire to take on a foundational technical role and guide the direction of cloud infrastructure Hold a high bar for technical excellence across the organization Strong technical expertise in one of Deployments, AWS, Kafka, or Monitoring/Logging 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 Experience with event driven architectures (i.e. Kafka) What Else You Need to Know The starting cash range for this role is $160,000 - 200,000. 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. Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other characteristics protected by state, federal or local law or our other policies. We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!

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