Sr. SWE Datacenter Automation
Zipline · South San Francisco, California, USA
About this role
### About Zipline Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service. We’re 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. 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. ### About You and The Role You’ll be a **Senior Software Engineer** on Zipline’s **Infrastructure** team, owning the infrastructure that runs our global autonomous delivery platform. This is safety-critical logistics at scale: we run private datacenters and edge compute to support flight operations, simulation, CI/CD, and production services. This role sits at the intersection of **hardware, virtualization, orchestration, and automation**, directly impacting deployment velocity, compute cost, and the reliability of systems supporting Zipline’s operations. ### What You’ll Do - **Own end-to-end lifecycle** for datacenter compute and storage: bare-metal provisioning, hypervisor management, SAN/NVMe storage clusters, network configuration, and Kubernetes cluster lifecycle. - **Design, build, and operate automation** that reduces manual setup time and increases deployment velocity: PXE/firmware workflows, dynamic inventory, image generation, fleet-wide configuration drift detection, and automated recovery playbooks. - **Deliver measurable reliability and scale improvements** by setting SLIs/SLOs for provisioning time, node commissioning success rate, cluster upgrade success rate, and MTTR—and owning those targets. - **Lead cross-functional runbook and incident ownership** for infrastructure incidents affecting flight operations or telemetry (on-call).
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