Here at Zip, we're reimagining how modern businesses function in the age of AI. The simple task of buying software, services, or tools at work has become hopelessly complicated at even the most innovative companies in the world. Today, enterprises spend $120T+ per year globally (>30 times larger than annual consumer e-commerce spend) and rely on vendors more than ever before to run their businesses.
Our co-founders started Zip in 2020 to address this seemingly universal problem with a purpose-built procurement platform that provides a simple, consumer-grade user experience. Within the last 5 years, Zip has created a new category and developed the leading solution in this $50B+ TAM space. Today, the world’s leading companies like OpenAI, Snowflake, Anthropic, Coinbase, and JPMorgan Chase rely on Zip to manage billions of dollars in spend.
We have a world-class team coming from category-defining companies like Airbnb, Meta, Stripe, Salesforce, Apple, and Google. With a $2.2 billion valuation and $370 million in funding from Y Combinator, Tiger Global, BOND, DST Global, and CRV, we’re focused on developing cutting-edge technology, expanding into new global markets, and—above all–driving incredible value for our customers. Join us!
Your Role
Zip's products are built on top of Ent and TAO, our proprietary database access layer inspired by Facebook's Ent and TAO. As a member of the Infra team, you will primarily work on Ent, TAO, and the underlying database. You will collaborate with product engineering teams to design new features for Ent and TAO that better support their use cases. Additionally, you will enhance database scalability, reliability, and performance to support the company's growth.
You Will
Evolve Zip’s data access layer for sharded and distributed databases, to support Zip’s global expansion.
Improve database scalability, reliability, performance, and operational efficiency.
Support and influence the technical designs of Zip’s products.
Your Qualifications
Experience: Over 5 years of software engineering experience, particularly in cloud infrastructure.
Education: Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related technical field involving coding, such as Physics or Mathematics.
Technical Skills: Proven experience in designing and implementing data access layers, such as ORM, Ent, and TAO.
Adaptability: Demonstrated ability and eagerness to quickly learn new frameworks, architectural patterns, and programming languages as needed.
Nice to Haves
Experience working on AWS-managed databases.
Prior experience designing and implementing distributed systems such as databases or storage solutions.
Zip is the world’s leading AI-powered procurement orchestration platform, empowering businesses to accelerate the procurement process, mitigate risk, and drive growth by offering a single front door to unify the teams, tasks, and tools involved in working with suppliers. With Zip, businesses can maximize employee adoption of purchasing policies and increase spend visibility and control. As the leading solution for optimizing business spend, Zip’s AI-powered platform is trusted by hundreds of leading enterprises worldwide, including AMD, Anthropic, Arm, Canva, Coinbase, Discover, Dollar Tree, HP, Instacart, Lyft, Northwestern Mutual, Pinterest, Prudential, Reddit, Sephora, Snowflake, Sprouts Farmers Market, and Toast to maximize the ROI of every dollar.
Zip in October of 2024 secured a $190 million Series D at a $2.2 billion valuation marking the largest investment in procurement technology in over two decades. Zip’s impact has been transformative: over $107 billion in customer spend processed to date and collectively saving over $4.4 billion. Snowflake alone achieved $305 million in savings.
Zip has earned numerous awards, including Fast Company’s Next Big Things in Tech, Inc.’s Best in Business, Forbes 2025 Fintech 50 and Forbes 2025 America's Best Startup Employers, along with coverage in Fortune, Bloomberg, VentureBeat and TechCrunch. Industry analyst IDC recently created a new “Spend Orchestration” category, with Zip named the leader.
