Staff Platform Software Engineer (AI Enablement)

Join Zipline, a company revolutionizing delivery services with autonomous technology. As a Staff Platform Software Engineer, you will build scalable and secure interfaces for AI-enabled applications and internal tools. You will work closely with various teams to define platforms, standards, and guardrails that ensure service reliability and support Zipline's mission. This hands-on role requires strong application engineering judgment and experience in building and operating production applications at scale.

• Définir et construire la "route pavée" pour connecter les applications et outils internes habilités par l'IA aux systèmes de production, y compris les services qui soutiennent les opérations de livraison et l'expérience client.
• Concevoir et mettre en œuvre des API, des passerelles, des middleware et des modèles d'intégration réutilisables qui sont évolutifs, sécurisés, observables et faciles à adopter pour les ingénieurs.
• Établir des normes techniques claires et une gouvernance sur la manière dont les outils habilités par l'IA accèdent aux systèmes de production et aux systèmes critiques pour les opérations.
• A collaborative, pragmatic approach to technical leadership: you set a high bar for production readiness while helping teams make progress
• Strong application engineering judgment, with a track record of translating product, customer, or operational needs into maintainable production software
• Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, rate limiting, observability, and operational safety in production applications
• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including experience building and operating production applications at meaningful scale
• Experience building cloud services and event-driven systems, including technologies such as Go, Protobuf, Kafka, and API-based service architectures
• Comfort using AI-assisted development tools as part of your engineering practice, along with the judgment to validate, harden, and operate the resulting systems
• Deep experience designing developer-facing APIs and distributed systems
• Experience designing for reliability, scale, and safe handling of high-volume or unpredictable traffic
• Experience designing abuse-resistant or public-facing APIs
• Experience with platform engineering, API gateways, service meshes, or developer platforms
• Background in security engineering, application security, site reliability engineering, or incident response
• Experience working with internal tools, data systems, or AI-enabled applications
• Experience establishing technical standards or governance in a fast-moving engineering organization
• Experience building systems that support real-world operations, logistics, autonomous systems, or other high-reliability services
• 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!