Engineering Manager, Developer Productivity & CI/CD

Zipline; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Zipline is hiring a Software Engineering Manager for its Developer Productivity team. You will own the team roadmap, guide CI/CD infrastructure, and expand remote build execution to empower engineers across FlightSystems and cloud.

This is a hands‑on leadership role focused on reducing friction, speeding builds, and enabling rapid software delivery. You will mentor a large team of engineers, collaborate with software, firmware, autonomy, and infrastructure groups, and drive initiatives that

Qualifications

• Proven track record building and leading high‑performing software teams.
• Strong fundamentals in modern software engineering and distributed systems.
• Experience delivering large cross‑team projects with measurable impact.

Responsibilities

• Lead Zipline’s Developer Productivity team to improve CI/CD speed and reliability.
• Own the roadmap and technical direction for build systems and developer tooling.
• Coach engineers, hire, and scale a high‑velocity team.
• Drive migrations to monorepo build systems and optimize workflows.

Skills

Leadership

Software engineering

CI/CD

Remote execution

Bazel

CI pipelines

Team building

Tools

Bazel

Buildkite

AWS

Docker

Linux

BuildBarn

Monorepos

Job description

Zipline is hiring a Software Engineering Manager for its Developer Productivity team. You will own the team roadmap, guide CI/CD infrastructure, and expand remote build execution to empower engineers across FlightSystems and cloud.

This is a hands‑on leadership role focused on reducing friction, speeding builds, and enabling rapid software delivery. You will mentor a large team of engineers, collaborate with software, firmware, autonomy, and infrastructure groups, and drive initiatives that