Zipline
Sr. SWE Datacenter Automation
South San Francisco, California, USA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 12, 2026
- Location
- South San Francisco, California, USA
South San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 5+ years of engineering experience, with at least 4 years owning production datacenter, virtualization, or infrastructure automation systems.
About the job
Owns and automates datacenter and edge infrastructure supporting Zipline’s autonomous delivery operations, with responsibility for reliability, deployment speed, and compute capacity.
What you'll do
- Manage the lifecycle of datacenter compute, storage, networking, virtualization, and Kubernetes clusters.
- Build automation for provisioning, configuration, upgrades, recovery, monitoring, and capacity management.
- Lead infrastructure incident response, on-call operations, and reliability improvements.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of engineering experience, including at least 4 years owning production datacenter, virtualization, or infrastructure automation systems.
- Hands-on expertise with bare-metal provisioning and imaging, hypervisors, and storage systems at scale.
- Production Kubernetes operations experience, plus automation and coding skills in Python, Go, or Rust.
- Networking fundamentals, incident ownership, and ability to work on-site in South San Francisco with occasional travel and hands-on datacenter work.
Tools
PXE/iPXE, IPMI, Redfish, KVM/qemu, ESXi, Ceph, NVMeoF, Kubernetes
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