Zipline International Inc.
Staff Software Engineer – Integrations Platform
South San Francisco, California, USA · Staff+
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Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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$13,149 more — $193,149 — moves this role to Level III and 3 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $193,149 would place this position at wage Level III. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- About Zipline Zipline is the world's largest and most experienced drone delivery service.
- Today, Zipline operates on four continents, makes a delivery somewhere in the world every 30 seconds, and has completed millions of deliveries to date, including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and retail products.
- The drone is only 15% of what we've built to enable seamless, reliable, global operations.
Responsibilities
- Represent Zipline in partner leadership discussions. Lead conversations about technical strategy, launch readiness, and delivery risks. Translate complex issues into clear business implications, recommendations, and decisions.
- Drive joint plans and commitments. Work with Commercial, Product, and partner teams to agree on scope, success criteria, milestones, and responsibilities. Surface dependencies early and negotiate practical tradeoffs when priorities or timelines change.
- Enable partner experiences.
- Build frontend and backend SDKs that enable partners to build great customer experiences in their own apps, along with the integration framework, connector templates, and developer tooling to deliver partner API integrations quickly and consistently.
- Define clear interfaces between partner-specific connectors and Zipline's core platform, keeping order lifecycle, authentication, authorization, data mapping, and monitoring consistent.
- Establish API and SDK versioning and compatibility practices so partners can adopt changes safely.
- Make development self-service. Create sandbox environments, partner API simulators, and automated contract tests so engineering teams can develop and validate integrations independently.
- Keep integrations reliable. Establish consistent retry, idempotency, and fallback behavior across partner APIs and webhooks. Define service reliability goals and own monitoring, runbooks, incident response, and remediation for integration failures.
- Multiply engineering impact. Lead technical reviews and mentor engineers
- Staff-level delivery. 7+ years building and operating production backend or distributed systems, with demonstrated ownership of architecture and delivery across services and teams.
Requirements
- Ability to turn varied external APIs into reusable connector patterns with clear boundaries and testable contracts, including experience with automated integration testing and development environments.
- Deep proficiency in Go, Python, or a comparable backend language, with experience building libraries, command-line tools, or developer workflows that make other engineers productive.
- Please note that this is a target, starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role.
- You can show how your work improved reliability or reduced integration effort.
- A track record of aligning customer expectations with engineering capacity and platform strategy.
Compensation
- The total compensation package for this role may also include: equity compensation; overtime pay; discretionary annual or performance bonuses; sales incentives; benefits such as medical, dental and vision insurance; paid time off; and more.
Benefits
- With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe.
Company info
- We are on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine and essential goods anytime, anywhere.
- We are seeking people who sculpt from first principles, enjoy facing adversity, and can do the impossible at record breaking speeds.
- You treat API usability, documentation, and compatibility as part of the product. - Distributed systems depth.
- You treat API usability, documentation, and compatibility as part of the product.
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