Software Engineering Intern - Enterprise Systems (Summer 2025)

About Zipline

Zipline is on a mission to transform the way goods move. Our aim is to solve the world’s most urgent and complex access challenges by building the first instant logistics system that serves all humans equally. Leveraging expertise in robotics and autonomy, Zipline designs, builds, and operates a fleet of cutting edge, autonomous delivery drones. We serve tens of millions of people around the world.

Joining Zipline’s Emerging Talent program as an intern is an opportunity to contribute to our promise of building a system that provides equitable access to critical healthcare supplies for millions of people. We believe that internships are more than just opportunities to learn by watching or doing low level tasks. We expect our interns to take on meaningful work that actively contributes to moving Zipline’s mission forward, while learning real-world skills that will serve them in their careers for the long term. 

Join us, and build the future of logistics with the best humans around!

About the team

The Enterprise Systems team is responsible for the operating system of Zipline – we develop critical applications that enable the manufacturing and maintenance of our drone delivery system. Our team is currently innovating and refining systems to optimize various aspects of our operations across the business, such as within finance, supply chain, inventory, manufacturing, maintenance, and engineering tools.

The Role 

We are looking for an intelligent, driven, and collaborative intern who loves challenges and aspires to contribute to a profoundly impactful mission. You will learn how to work in a production codebase, take ownership of critical problems, collaborate with a team of passionate engineers and understand the needs of stakeholders with diverse perspectives. You will architect and implement solutions that help Zipline’s mechanical engineers, maintenance technicians, warehouse managers and many others achieve their objectives.

What You'll Do 

• Collaborate with software engineers and business stakeholders to deliver impactful full stack software solutions
• Deep dive into your users’ problems to simplify software workflows which enable the business to move efficiently
• Design and develop both new applications in a modern infrastructure and augment an open source ERP system which are used to plan, build, and deploy flight hardware.
• Develop intuitive scalable solutions using technologies like React, PostgreSQL, Python, and other frameworks.
• Contribute to architectural decisions to build scalable and distributed systems that are used around the world

What You'll Do 

• Experience developing software using Python, Go, or a similar object-oriented language.
• Frontend experience using React, Angular, or similar Javascript frameworks
• Experience with version control (Git), continuous integration, and continuous delivery concepts
• An interest in working with business stakeholders to understand their real world problems and architect solutions to their needs

Nice to haves

• Database experience with PostgreSQL, Sqlalchemy, or similar database technologies
• Knowledge of database fundamentals like designing schemas, indexing, migrations

What Else You Need to Know   

Our internships are full-time positions, in-person at our South San Francisco office. We will host our Summer 2025 interns from May - August.

The starting cash range for this role is $40 - 44 / hour. Please note that this is a target, starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role. The final cash pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors, including a specific candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, and working location. The total compensation package for this role may also include: overtime pay; commuter benefits; paid sick time; and more.

Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws or our own sensibilities.

We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!

Zipline is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. Please let your point of contact at Zipline know if you require any accommodations throughout your interview process.