Senior Software Engineer - Maps Platform

📋 Job Overview

Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service. We are on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine and essential goods anytime, anywhere. We design, build, and operate the world’s largest autonomous logistics system, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably. 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.

🏢 About Zipline

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.

🎯 The Role

We’re building the mapping infrastructure that powers every Zipline flight. Maps Platform engineers build the backbone that serves geographic data, features, and map-driven services to Zipline’s products and operators.

You’ll make map data fast, accurate, and reliable for both human workflows (map editors, operator dashboards, regulatory UIs) and autonomous systems (routing, onboard systems). This role mixes backend, data, platform engineering and user interface design with pragmatic production ownership.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Own the foundation of flight intelligence. The systems you build directly power how aircraft understand and navigate the world.
• Design pipelines that process and serve large-scale geospatial datasets with strict requirements for accuracy, consistency, and availability.
• Build systems from raw data ingestion to production services that are critical to real-world operations.
• Work across autonomy, routing, simulation, and operations to deliver cross-functional impact.
• Leverage modern AI and agentic workflows to increase engineering velocity while maintaining strong system rigor.

📌 Required Qualifications

• Experience building and operating large-scale data pipelines
• A track record shipping reliable services and APIs
• Extreme ownership mindset with the ability to drive projects end-to-end
• Experience working with large datasets and designing reliable data processing logic
• Familiarity with data modeling, data quality, and validation in production systems
• Comfort working with cross-functional teams and integrating systems across domains
• Strong backend or distributed systems engineering fundamentals

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience with geospatial systems, mapping technologies, or GIS tooling

🎁 Benefits

The starting cash ranges for this role is $160,000 - $250,000. The total compensation package for this role may also include: equity compensation; discretionary annual or performance bonuses; sales incentives; benefits such as medical, dental and vision insurance; paid time off; and more. This position may be hired at one of three levels based on the candidate’s experience, skills, and demonstrated scope:

• Software Engineer II: $160,000 - $190,000
• Senior Software Engineer: $190,000 - $220,000
• Staff Software Engineer: $220,000 - $250,000

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws or our own sensibilities.

We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!