Director, Marketplace Engineering — Scale Delivery

Zipline; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 260,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Zipline is seeking a Director of the Marketplace engineering organization in South San Francisco to lead the teams connecting customers and merchants to Zipline’s drone network. You will own a broad product scope—from consumer app experiences to partner tools—driving speed, reliability, and scale in a world-changing service.

You will set direction across a tall technical stack, grow a fast‑moving team, and turn ambitious visions into practical, high-impact software that reshapes how goods move

Qualifications

• Experience leading and scaling product engineering teams shipping complex software.
• Strong technical judgment guiding architecture and execution for lean teams.
• Proven ability to build organizations, develop leaders and attract talent.
• Excellent product sense, prioritization, and cross-functional partnership.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and driving clarity amidst chaos.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow an A-team of software engineers and managers.
• Set clear technical and product strategy balancing near-term delivery with long-term velocity.
• Build reliable marketplace products and manage architecture, platform investments and debt.
• Partner with product teams to deliver uncompromising consumer experiences.
• Create operating rhythms for predictability and visibility across Zipline.

Skills

Leadership

Technical judgment

Product sense

Cross-functional partnership

Strategic planning

People development

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

Zipline is seeking a Director of the Marketplace engineering organization in South San Francisco to lead the teams connecting customers and merchants to Zipline’s drone network. You will own a broad product scope—from consumer app experiences to partner tools—driving speed, reliability, and scale in a world-changing service.

You will set direction across a tall technical stack, grow a fast‑moving team, and turn ambitious visions into practical, high-impact software that reshapes how goods move