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# Software Engineer

- **Company:** Zipline
- **Location:** South San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $160,000.0 - $250,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Distributed Systems, Motion Planning, Backend, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Docker, Golang
- **Published:** October 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-software-engineer-routing-engine-zipline-8790817

## About the Role

* 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.