About You and The Role
You are the Software Engineering Manager for Zipline’s Developer Productivity team. Your team builds the tools and infrastructure that help engineers develop, test, and ship software across FlightSystems and cloud.
You will own the team’s roadmap, technical direction, and execution. Your work will improve the speed and reliability of CI, expand our use of remote build execution, simplify developer workflows, and support the long-term evolution of Zipline’s software platform.
This is a hands-on leadership role. You will grow and coach the team, stay close to technical decisions, and work directly with software, firmware, autonomy, and infrastructure teams to solve the problems slowing engineers down.
What You'll Do
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
Hire, coach, and develop engineers while building a team culture obsessed with building great developer experiences
What You'll Bring
Experience building top-performing software teams
Solid software engineering fundamentals
Deep knowledge of modern build and CI systems, including remote execution, caching, artifact management, and distributed infrastructure
Current understanding of AI-enabled developer workflows, with the ability to evaluate and adopt emerging tools that improve developer productivity and code quality across large codebases
Experience setting technical direction and delivering complex, cross-team projects with measurable results
Obsession with engineering velocity, removing friction, and building great tools
Passion for building strong relationships with stakeholder teams
High-bandwidth communications across many software engineering disciplines
Metric-driven mindset
Bonus Points
Experience with Bazel, Buildkite, BuildBarn, AWS, Linux, Docker, or large monorepos
Experience with C++, Rust, Python, Go, or TypeScript
Experience supporting robotics, embedded systems, hardware-in-the-loop testing, or safety-critical software
Experience leading major build-system, CI-platform, or repository migrations
What Else You Need To Know
The starting cash range for this role is $182,000 – $230,000 depending on experience. This is a target starting range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications; the final cash offer will depend on experience, qualifications, skills, working location, and projected impact. The total compensation package for this role also includes equity compensation and benefits (medical, dental, vision, PTO, and more).
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!
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As set forth in Zipline ’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.
