Senior/Staff Security Engineer, Product Security

Job overview

The Senior/Staff Security Engineer, Product Security role is hybrid, based at Zipline’s South San Francisco headquarters, with frequent onsite presence and occasional travel to distribution centers and test sites. Compensation is not specified. Zipline operates an autonomous drone delivery system for critical supplies, food, and other goods. The engineer owns security outcomes for production services and integrations that support fleet operations, automation, telemetry, and developer tools. The role reduces security risks that could affect service continuity, physical safety, data protection, or regulatory compliance through hands-on engineering and cross-team collaboration.

What you'll do

• Own security outcomes for assigned production areas
• define and improve risk metrics
• implement identity and access controls, service trust, key management, telemetry, secure updates, and hardened CI/CD
• threat-model and review designs
• lead vulnerability triage and remediation
• develop incident-response playbooks and exercises
• secure AI-assisted development and operations
• integrate penetration-test and red-team findings into engineering work
• collaborate with software, infrastructure, autonomy, field operations, and compliance teams.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

product security

security engineer

senior/staff

cloud security

vulnerability management

incident response

threat modeling

ci/cd

autonomous logistics

hybrid

south san francisco ca

occasional travel

zipline

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

The posting requires production ownership and participation in incident response, including on-call participation when assigned; occasional travel is required.

About the employer

Zipline is hiring for this role. Industry: Freight Transportation Arrangement. Sector: 48.