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Zipline

Robot type
Drone
Location
South San FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Software
Posted
Aug 12, 2026
Salary
$182,000–$230,000 a year
Full-time

Software Engineering Manager – Developer Productivity

Job description

Our 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.

Our 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.

We operate at a global scale and are looking for practical problem solvers who…

Job responsibilities

  • Lead the team responsible for Zipline’s build systems, CI/CD infrastructure, remote execution, and developer tooling
  • Own the roadmap for improving CI speed, reliability, and developer experience across our monorepo
  • Support a fast-growing software engineering organization of about 200 people to improve velocity and developer experience
  • Expand our on-prem remote build execution platform
  • Work across teams to improve our Bazel build graph
  • Be a thought leader in simplifying complex CI pipelines
  • Lead large build system migrations to move more projects into the monorepo’s build system
  • Set priorities for the developer productivity team by talking with customers to identify pain points, and defining metrics to track productivity

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