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Staff Platform Software Engineer in USA

  • Zipline
  • Full time
  • Email
  • South San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

  • Define and build secure, scalable paved-road integration patterns connecting AI-enabled applications and internal tools to production systems.
  • Design and implement reusable APIs, gateways, middleware, and event-driven integration components.
  • Partner with Forward Deployed AI Engineers and application teams to move prototypes into production-ready supported services.
  • Approve, revise, or reject integration designs that access protected production boundaries based on operational safety and reliability standards.
  • Define and operate safeguards including authentication, authorization, workload isolation, rate limiting, auditability, capacity management, observability, alerting, graceful degradation, and safe failure modes.
  • Establish technical standards and governance for AI-enabled access to production and operationally critical systems.
  • Create reference implementations, documentation, and developer experiences that encourage secure platform adoption.
  • Ensure platform components and integrations have clear ownership, operational expectations, and sustainable support models.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience, including building and operating production applications at meaningful scale.
  • Deep experience designing developer-facing APIs and distributed systems.
  • Strong application engineering judgment and a record of translating product, customer, or operational needs into maintainable production software.
  • Experience building cloud services and event-driven systems using technologies such as Go, Protobuf, and Kafka.
  • Experience designing for reliability, scale, and safe handling of high-volume or unpredictable traffic.
  • Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, rate limiting, observability, and operational safety in production applications.
  • Collaborative and pragmatic technical leadership skills, including setting high production-readiness standards while helping teams make progress.
  • Comfort using AI-assisted development tools and validating, hardening, and operating the resulting systems.
  • Experience with abuse-resistant or public-facing APIs, platform engineering, API gateways, service meshes, developer platforms, security engineering, application security, site reliability engineering, incident response, technical governance, internal tools, data systems, AI-enabled applications, logistics, autonomous systems, or other high-reliability services is preferred.

Benefits

  • Starting cash range of $185,000-$240,000 per year.
  • Potential equity compensation, overtime pay, discretionary annual or performance bonuses, and sales incentives.
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance and paid time off may be included.

Salary: $185k - $240k/yr

Zipline

Zipline is redefining logistics with its instant delivery system that addresses urgent access challenges for a diverse range of customers, including governments and businesses. By leveraging advanced technology like robotics and autonomy, Zipline ensures equitable access to essential goods, wheth...

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