Zipline
Software Engineer, Airspace Platform
South San Francisco, California, USA +1 · Full-time · Posted Aug 26, 2026
- Location
- South San Francisco, California, USA
South San Francisco, California, United States
About the job
Designs and delivers software for coordinating autonomous aircraft with other operators and users in shared airspace.
What you'll do
- Lead design and delivery of airspace-management capabilities, including coordination, flight deconfliction, and simulation services.
- Translate safety, operational, and interoperability requirements into system designs; own projects from discovery through rollout and operation.
- Design APIs and data models, and provide technical leadership through reviews, mentorship, and industry contributions.
What they ask for
- Track record designing and delivering reliable software systems in complex or high-consequence environments.
- Strong experience with distributed systems, service architecture, APIs, and data modeling.
- Experience operating production services in a modern cloud environment.
- Experience owning technically complex projects from definition through production.
Nice to have
- Experience with safety-critical, security-sensitive, real-time, or other high-consequence systems; simulation, optimization, geospatial systems, robotics, autonomy, or aviation.
- Interoperability standards or open-source development; AWS and Kubernetes at production scale.
Tools
AWS, Kubernetes
Model-written summary · the original posting is authoritative