Zipline
Staff Software Engineer – Integrations Platform
$180K–$270K
South San Francisco, California, USA +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Location
- South San Francisco, California, USA
South San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 7+ years building and operating production backend or distributed systems.
About the job
Leads strategic partner integrations and builds the APIs, SDKs, and platform capabilities that enable scalable, reliable drone-delivery experiences.
What you'll do
- Represent Zipline in partner leadership discussions; align integration scope, launch plans, risks, and commitments.
- Own integration platform architecture and build SDKs, connector frameworks, developer tooling, and self-service testing capabilities.
- Ensure production reliability through release checks, monitoring, incident response, and reusable integration practices; mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- 7+ years building and operating production backend or distributed systems, with architecture and delivery ownership across services and teams.
- Experience with developer platforms, SDKs, or internal engineering tools, plus API design, data modeling, asynchronous workflows, and idempotent processing.
- Production ownership including observability, on-call support, incident investigation, and reliability improvements.
- Deep proficiency in Go, Python, or a comparable backend language; experience with frontend libraries or SDKs and communicating technical tradeoffs to enterprise leaders.
Pay
$180,000 - $270,000 USD starting cash range (base salary)
Tools
Go, Python
AI focus
Use AI tools to improve implementation, testing, debugging, and review while taking responsibility for correctness, security, and maintainability.
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