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We are 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. Today, 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. \nOur customers include the world’s largest and most prominent healthcare systems, governments, retailers, restaurants and global businesses who rely on us to save lives, reduce emissions, increase economic opportunity, and provide delivery from point A to point B as fast as possible. The drone is only 15% of what we’ve built to enable seamless, reliable, global operations.\nOur system strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and gives people time back. With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe.\nWe operate at a global scale and are looking for practical problem solvers who thrive on real-world challenges and rapid growth. Our team is motivated by building systems that have a direct, meaningful impact on people’s lives and by scaling the future of logistics. We are seeking people who sculpt from first principles, enjoy facing adversity, and can do the impossible at record breaking speeds.\nAbout the Team\nZipline’s Infrastructure team builds and operates the software foundation that powers our global logistics network. We own the platforms that allow engineering teams to deploy, observe, communicate with, and safely operate services across cloud and physical environments.\nThis is not a “click around in managed services and call it infrastructure” role. We use cloud providers where they make sense, but we also care deeply about control, reliability, cost, latency, and operational resilience. That means we run and manage critical pieces of infrastructure ourselves. From our k8s clusters, to the server metal in the OnPrem clusters we manage. \nWe are building infrastructure for a company where software meets the physical world. When our systems work, medicine moves, food arrives, aircraft fly, operators have visibility, and customers get what they need. When they do not, the consequences are real. That is the fun part.\nWhat You'll Do\nDesign, build, and operate foundational infrastructure used by engineering teams across Zipline.\nOwn core platform capabilities across deployments, infrastructure as code, observability, networking, service-to-service communication, and runtime environments.\nOperate and evolve Zipline-managed Kubernetes clusters, including cluster lifecycle, reliability, scalability, security, and developer ergonomics.\nBuild software and tooling that make infrastructure easier, safer, and faster for engineering teams to use.\nPartner with product, robotics, autonomy, fleet management, data, and operations teams to understand their infrastructure needs and turn recurring pain into durable platform abstractions.\nImprove the reliability and debuggability of distributed systems that span cloud services, physical infrastructure, and globally deployed operations.\nEvaluate new technologies pragmatically, separating durable leverage from hype.\nParticipate in an on-call rotation for core infrastructure and improve the systems so on-call gets quieter over time.\nRaise the technical bar through design reviews, operational reviews, documentation, mentoring, and interviews.\nWhat You'll Bring \n6+ years of professional experience designing, implementing and deploying cloud platforms to support internal and external business needs\nHands-on experience operating production systems, not just provisioning them.\nComfort working across the stack, from cloud APIs and Kubernetes controllers down to Linux, networking, storage, and runtime behavior.\nA bias toward automation, software-defined infrastructure, and eliminating repeated human toil.\nSound judgment about when to use managed services, when to self-host, and when to build custom tooling.\nStrong debugging instincts for distributed systems, especially under time pressure.\nClear written and verbal communication, with the ability to build trust across software, hardware, operations, and business teams.\nHigh standards for reliability, security, maintainability, and operational simplicity.\nGrit, resourcefulness, and resilience in ambiguous, fast-changing environments.\nEligibility to work in the United States.\nNice to haves\nExperience working with AWS\nExperience working with self-managed OnPrem servers\nExperience with Kubernetes\nExperience with event driven architectures (i.e. Kafka)\nWhat Else You Need to Know \nThe starting cash range for this role is $180,000 - 240,000. Please note that this is a target, starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role. The final cash pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors, including a specific candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, working location, and projected impact. The total compensation package for this role may also include: equity compensation; discretionary annual or performance bonuses; sales incentives; benefits such as medical, dental and vision insurance; paid time off; and more.\nZipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other characteristics protected by state, federal or local law or our other policies.\nWe value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!\nVoluntary Self-Identification\nFor government reporting purposes, we ask candidates to respond to the below self-identification survey. Completion of the form is entirely voluntary. Whatever your decision, it will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter. 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