Senior/Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

The role

You will design, build, and operate foundational infrastructure used by engineering teams. This includes owning core platform capabilities, managing Kubernetes clusters, and building software and tooling to improve infrastructure usability.

What you will do

• Design, build, and operate foundational infrastructure used by engineering teams.
• Own core platform capabilities across deployments, infrastructure as code, observability, networking, service-to-service communication, and runtime environments.
• Operate and evolve Zipline-managed Kubernetes clusters.
• Build software and tooling to make infrastructure easier, safer, and faster.
• Partner with product, robotics, autonomy, fleet management, data, and operations teams.
• Improve the reliability and debuggability of distributed systems.
• Evaluate new technologies pragmatically.
• Participate in an on-call rotation for core infrastructure.
• Raise the technical bar through design reviews, operational reviews, documentation, mentoring, and interviews.

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of professional experience designing, implementing and deploying cloud platforms.
• Hands-on experience operating production systems.
• Comfort working across the stack, from cloud APIs and Kubernetes controllers down to Linux, networking, storage, and runtime behavior.
• A bias toward automation, software-defined infrastructure, and eliminating repeated human toil.
• Sound judgment about when to use managed services, when to self-host, and when to build custom tooling.
• Strong debugging instincts for distributed systems.
• Clear written and verbal communication.
• High standards for reliability, security, maintainability, and operational simplicity.
• Grit, resourcefulness, and resilience in ambiguous, fast-changing environments.
• Eligibility to work in the United States.

Nice to have

• Experience working with AWS
• Experience working with self-managed OnPrem servers
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with event driven architectures (i.e. Kafka)

Benefits

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

Before you apply

• Eligibility to work in the United States.

About the company

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