Zip is the AI platform for enterprise procurement — built for humans and agents working together. By orchestrating procurement across teams, tools, and suppliers with the help of AI agents, companies can secure the resources they need to innovate faster than ever before.
The world’s most influential enterprises trust Zip, including T-Mobile, OpenAI, AMD, Mars, Dollar Tree, and more. Together they’ve saved over $8 billion and processed over $500 billion in spend. Zip’s team includes product leaders from Apple, Airbnb, and Meta, as well as former procurement leaders from United Health, Sanofi, MGM Resorts, Discover, and NASA.
Backed by Adams Street, Alkeon, BOND, CRV, DST, Tiger Global, and Y Combinator, Zip has raised $371 million, most recently at a $2.2 billion valuation and has been recognized by Forbes Fintech 50, Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies, Inc. Best in Business, and LinkedIn Top Startups.
We are looking for an experienced Tech Lead to lead the Core Infrastructure team in San Fransisco, California. This role involves taking ownership of Zip’s Kubernetes platform, observability and deployment tooling. You will partner with the Core Infrastructure Toronto, Canada, team to drive Zip’s multi-region expansion, and will also serve as site lead in SF for the broader Foundations Engineering Group.
You will join a super talented Infrastructure team and take ownership in one or more of the following areas:
Horizontal scaling, multi-region expansion and GovCloud development
Infrastructure security, reliability, efficiency and performance; SLAs and SLOs
AI Infrastructure development
Observability, debuggability and AI-assisted troubleshooting
Take full ownership in one or more of the Core Infra areas, closely collaborating with partner teams, define the roadmap for these areas, and drive execution end to end
6+ years of software engineering experience in infrastructures.
BS or higher, in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g. physics or math)
Experience working with some of the key systems used at Zip, such as Kubernetes/EKS, Multi-region, Networking, Observability, Reliability and Efficiency
Experience working at a small company with diverse responsibilities is a bonus, but not required
Ability and interest to quickly learn new frameworks, architecture patterns, and programming languages as needed
The salary range for this role is $160,000 - $210,000. The salary for this position is determined based on a variety of job-related factors that may include location, relevant experience, education, or particular skills and expertise.
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.
