Lead Application Security Engineer, Zipline
3-5 days a week in office
Transforming the way goods move
Open for applications
Transforming the way goods move
1001+ employees
Open for applications
3-5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To open up access to emergency medical care to everyone in the world.
Role
Who you are
- Our ideal candidate works well in startup environments, is comfortable wearing many hats, and can motivate a team to produce impressive results while collaborating with partner teams
- Experience as an engineering manager or tech lead of a Security or Software team
- Experience working with complex distributed software systems that support production loads
- Strong fundamentals in microservice design principles
- Expertise in Python, C++, Golang, or another object oriented languages
- A Strong Generalist Engineering mindset, ready to dive in and contribute to improve Zipline’s security - across many systems
- Excited to be a technical lead and mentor others
- A pragmatic approach to security - and experience incrementally improving systems
Desirable
- Industry experience supporting multi-domain engineering teams (WebApp, Cloud Infra, Embedded Systems)
- Experience being a security evangelist in an industry context, helping socialize best practices (not just enforcing policy)
- Experience as a software engineer, and a deep understanding of healthy SDLC practices
What the job involves
- In this role, you will be responsible for partnering with Zipline’s software teams to own and maintain the security of our cloud environments
- You will directly partner with our engineering teams to help discover vulnerabilities in process, architecture, and the software we build
- The Application Security team will be responsible for helping define data classifications and ensuring the proper access control measures are in place for the compliance requirements of that data
- As the lead of Zipline’s growing AppSec team - you will be responsible for prioritizing the work of the team members, helping craft security policy for our development teams, defining/following incident response plans for potential breaches, and foundational responsible for incrementally improving the security of Zipline’s systems
- Lead the team responsible for securing Zipline’s software and cloud infrastructure
- Partner with engineering teams to build functional and pragmatic security policy
- Work with the rest of the AppSec team to build tools and frameworks for the engineering team
- Build out and improve the security incident response frameworks
- Support the growth and development of the members of the Application Security team
- Deeply understand and secure the services running in Zipline’s cloud infrastructure
- Help manage and maintain Zipline’s compliance with well established security standards (SOC2, ISO 27001, …)
- Support third party pen tests
Our take
Zipline is transforming the way goods move by creating the first logistics system that serves all humans equally via a drone delivery service. As the first emergency drone logistics operation, Zipline is fundamentally changing how we transport emergency medical supplies and has expanded into commercial deliveries. It's partnered with several major companies, including Walmart.
Zipline has an edge over potential future competitors as the company has thousands of hours and over 35 million miles of flight to prove the system is safe and effective. It’s also one of the first companies to receive a full commercial operating certificate, putting Zipline in a strong position to continuously branch out to other markets.
The unicorn company operates globally and has signed its first government contract with Rwanda to provide up to 2 million drone deliveries by 2029. It is also aiming to start commercial deliveries to individual households in the near future. With big companies such as Amazon and Walmart examining “instant” delivery options, Zipline has a proven track record and the equipment and logistics in place to provide such services. 2023 funding pushed Zipline's valuation to a staggering $4.2 billion, indicating a bright future.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Apr 2023
$330m
SERIES F
Jul 2021
$250m
SERIES E
Total funding: $813.7m
Company benefits
- Generous parental leave
- Generous vacation policy
- Monthly wellness stipend
- Monthly team events
- Healthcare, vision, and dental
- Healthy, delicious meals and snacks
- Dog-friendly offices
Company values
- Customer obsession - The standard of care
- Ownership - Getting the job done
- Transparency - Breeds trust
- Continuous improvement - Tackling hard problems
- Serve Your Species - Empowering one another
Company HQ
South San Francisco, CA
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Founders
Having studied Economics and Biotechnology at Harvard, they worked for almost 11 months as a self-employed rock climber. They combined their academic and practical experience to co-found Zipline in July 2011.
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