Senior/Staff Security Engineer - Product Security
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 Product security at Zipline protects systems that directly affect safety, regulatory compliance, and uninterrupted delivery of critical goods in real-world operational environments. In this role, you will own security for production services and integrations that run our fleet orchestration, distribution center automation, telemetry/teleoperation, and developer/operator toolchains. This is a mission-critical position: your work will reduce attack surface that could cause service outages, unsafe drone behavior, data exposure of patient/partner data, or regulatory failure. You’ll join a small, high-ownership security team and partner deeply with software, infrastructure, autonomy/embedded, and field-ops teams. Expect hands-on engineering work, prioritized ownership of specific services, and a mandate to ship controls that measurably reduce risk in production systems under operational pressure. **Location:** Hybrid onsite — you’ll be at our South San Francisco HQ frequently, with occasional travel to distribution centers and test sites. ### What You’ll Do - Own security outcomes for **2–4 named production areas** (examples: fleet orchestration APIs, DC orchestration/robotics control plane, telemetry and command channels, developer CI/CD and secrets platforms). Be the primary security owner for at least one area on hire. - Deliver measurable risk reduction (define baselines and drive improvements in production).
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