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# Senior Software Engineer - Maps Routing

- **Company:** Zipline
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $160,000.0 - $250,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Distributed Systems, Motion Planning, Routing, Backend, Kubernetes, Low Latency, Apache Kafka, Docker, Golang
- **Published:** August 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=7b9b36fcce30c01e

## About the Role

We care far more about how you approach problems than experience with any specific technology. Strong candidates typically have:
Experience operating low-latency, high-availability production services
Hands-on experience with path planning, graph search, motion planning, or related optimization problems Extreme ownership mindset with a track record of driving projects end-to-end Comfort working on ambiguous, high-visibility / high-impact problems Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams including autonomy and operations

 * Strong backend or distributed systems engineering fundamentals

Our current stack includes technologies such as Rust, Go, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, and AWS, but we value engineers who can learn quickly and focus on solving the right problems.



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