Sr. SWE Datacenter Automation
Core
Senior Software Engineer owning end-to-end lifecycle for datacenter compute and storage infrastructure supporting Zipline's global autonomous drone delivery platform.
Role type
Senior IC Infrastructure Engineer (Datacenter Automation)
Builds
Private datacenters, edge compute, simulation environments, CI/CD pipelines, and production services for flight operations.
Domain
Logistics / Autonomous Systems / Datacenter Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
bare-metal provisioning, hypervisor management, storage systems, Kubernetes operations, automation scripting, networking fundamentals, incident management, capacity planning
Preferred skills
PXE/firmware workflows, dynamic inventory, image generation, fleet-wide configuration drift detection, automated recovery playbooks, SLIs/SLOs definition, monitoring and alerting implementation, cost and lifecycle management
Technologies
PXE, iPXE, IPMI, Redfish, KVM, qemu, ESXi, Ceph, NVMeoF, SAN, Kubernetes, kubeadm, cluster API, Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Python, Go, Rust
Responsibilities
Own end-to-end lifecycle for datacenter compute and storage; Design, build, and operate automation to reduce manual setup time; Deliver measurable reliability and scale improvements; Lead cross-functional runbook and incident ownership; Instrument and maintain monitoring, alerting, and dashboards; Implement cost, capacity, and lifecycle management; Execute hands-on tasks including racking, cabling, and hardware troubleshooting
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
