Senior Software Engineer, Online Storage

Zip

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Work type
Remote
Location
San Francisco, CAToronto, Canada
Salary
$140,000–$230,000 / yr
Posted
3 days ago
Nearby
88 roles within 25 mi

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About Zip

Zip Co is a global buy-now, pay-later company offering flexible installment payment solutions to consumers and merchants, enabling interest-free purchases across retail, travel, and healthcare. Industry: Financial Technology & Consumer Lending

Zip currently has 10 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $180,000–$235,000 across 10 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, Online Storage

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As a Senior Software Engineer and Site Tech Lead on Zip’s Online Storage team in Toronto, you will serve as the senior technical voice for both storage and search domains, providing guidance to engineers while collaborating closely with leadership in San Francisco. Your responsibilities include re-architecting foundational systems to support multi-region expansion, evolving search infrastructure into a unified platform, and enhancing disaster recovery practices through rigorous testing. You will also mentor team members and ensure high-quality technical outcomes by fostering growth and setting standards. The role requires deep experience with large-scale distributed storage systems like Aurora RDS, Elasticache, DynamoDB, and S3, as well as expertise in search infrastructure such as OpenSearch. Additionally, proficiency in multi-region architectures and disaster recovery processes is highly valued to address the challenges of global expansion and enterprise requirements.

Skills

AWS OpenSearch Aurora RDS Elasticache MemoryDB DynamoDB S3 CI/CD Python SQL Disaster Recovery Multi-region Architecture ORM Design Reviews Mentorship

What you'll do

  • Serve as the senior technical voice for the Online Storage team in Toronto.
  • Evolve Zip's search infrastructure into a unified, intelligent platform.
  • Re-engineer core storage stack to support multi-region and multi-cell architectures.
  • Ensure complete cell isolation to prevent cross-cell failure cascades.
  • Mature disaster recovery processes through practical fire drills and validation.
  • Improve performance and debuggability of Zip’s data layer for quick issue resolution.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience on platform or infrastructure teams.
  • Deep hands-on experience with large-scale distributed storage systems including relational databases, caching layers, and cloud-managed storage.
  • Proven experience designing or operating search infrastructure at scale, including relevance tuning and index architecture.
  • Track record of delivering complex infrastructure projects end-to-end with high quality and clear communication to stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership through design reviews, mentorship, and setting standards for other engineers.

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