Senior Software Engineer, Maintenance Systems

The role

You will own software in the critical path of fleet reliability and maintenance operations. This includes building fleet health systems, maintenance orchestration platforms, and airworthiness control systems for an autonomous logistics network.

What you will do

• Own fleet health and asset visibility systems
• Build maintenance orchestration platforms for issue management and technician workflows
• Develop airworthiness and configuration control systems
• Create usage tracking and lifecycle systems to monitor component wear
• Build operational tooling for maintenance teams and flight operations
• Develop reliability automation and event-driven systems
• Maintain real-time visibility into fleet health
• Design operational tooling to help technicians make decisions under pressure
• Manage maintenance workflows across a globally distributed network

Required qualifications

• Experience building reliable production systems in operationally complex environments
• Ability to turn ambiguous reliability and maintenance problems into durable software systems
• Strong backend and systems engineering judgment
• Ability to simplify operational complexity and design abstractions that scale
• Comfort owning systems with real-world consequences and high expectations for reliability

Nice to have

• Product instinct
• Operational awareness
• Ability to thrive in environments where software, hardware, and operations are tightly coupled

Benefits

• Equity compensation
• Discretionary annual or performance bonuses
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Paid time off

About the company

Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service. They operate an autonomous logistics system to deliver food, medicine, and essential goods globally.