Sr. SWE Datacenter Automation

South San Francisco, California, USA. Posted 3 months ago

The role

You will own the infrastructure that runs the global autonomous delivery platform. This includes managing datacenter compute, storage, virtualization, orchestration, and automation.

What you will do

Own end-to-end lifecycle for datacenter compute and storage
Design, build, and operate automation for deployment velocity
Deliver measurable reliability and scale improvements
Lead cross-functional runbook and incident ownership
Instrument and maintain monitoring, alerting, and dashboards
Implement cost, capacity, and lifecycle management
Execute hands-on tasks like racking, cabling, and troubleshooting hardware

Required qualifications

5+ years of engineering experience
At least 4 years owning production datacenter, virtualization, or infrastructure automation systems
Deep, hands-on expertise with bare-metal provisioning and imaging (PXE/iPXE, IPMI, Redfish)
Expertise with hypervisors (KVM/qemu, ESXi or equivalent)
Expertise with storage systems (Ceph, NVMeoF, SAN) at scale
Proven Kubernetes operations experience
Production-grade automation and coding skills in one or more languages (Python, Go, or Rust)
Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Terraform/Ansible/Helm, and GitOps practices
Strong networking fundamentals (VLANs, BGP/EVPN, LACP, routing)
On-call and incident experience
Physical datacenter readiness for racking, cabling, and repair work
Experience operating in regulated or safety-sensitive environments

About the company

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