Zipline is a well-funded and quickly growing SaaS company that works with many of the world's top retailers across many industries. We have best-in-class NPS and CSAT scores, and our customers rave about us. Plus, we are a fully remote company with employees all over Canada, the United States and beyond!
The Zipline Platform Team builds and maintains the foundation that keeps our platform reliable, secure, and scalable. Our mission is to empower our engineering team to deliver with confidence by providing a resilient infrastructure, streamlined CI/CD pipelines, and world-class developer experience. We focus on availability, performance, and reliability, while continuously improving our systems through observability, automation, and incident response practices. Ultimately, we enable Zipline to innovate quickly and safely, ensuring our platform can scale to meet the needs of every customer.
As an Intermediate Rails Engineer, you will play a key role in scaling and improving Zipline's cloud infrastructure, CI/CD systems, and developer experience. You will help design automation solutions, manage containerized environments, and build tools that enable engineering teams to deliver software efficiently and reliably. This role blends hands-on cloud operations with infrastructure development.
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Compensation:
At Zipline, we're committed to paying our team fairly, transparently, and in a way that supports growth. This role has a minimum annual salary within Canada of $128,000 CAD and a maximum of $192,000 CAD . This role has a minimum annual salary in the USA of $132,000 and a maximum of $198,000 USD.
The broad salary ranges reflect the growth someone will experience in the role—from developing skills to reaching expertise within their career level. We've found that hiring team members with the expectation of being accomplished in the role sets them up for success, which for this position on the USA band means a starting salary of $148,500 USD Within the Canadian band, $144,000 CAD . Salaries below this point typically reflect someone with potential but still building the necessary skills, while salaries above are for individuals already excelling in the role, with a deep understanding of Zipline's impact on customers, product, and company.
At Zipline, you'll continue to have career development conversations with your manager to ensure your compensation grows as you advance.
Our salary ranges are determined by market, factoring in our revenue and employee size, paying competitively at the 75th percentile. In higher cost of living markets, we apply 5-10% multipliers on our ranges, depending on the location, to maintain competitive compensation and reflective of the increased expenses our team members face in those areas. While we primarily hire in Canada and the USA, we are a global employer, and all hiring regions will use the same methodology to determine fair and transparent pay.
Transparency is key to building trust in our compensation process. To better understand how this range is determined, we encourage you to ask as many questions as you'd like about compensation during the interview process to ensure clarity and confidence.
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Want to learn more about how we work?
We may be remote, but we're anything but disconnected. Zipline is a thriving, dynamic team spread across the globe—collaborating, innovating, and having a blast along the way.
Zipliners work from all over—vans, boats, Airbnbs, and everything in between. No office? No problem. Our culture still feels like one big hug.
Even though we're distributed, we make space to connect—whether it's our weekly all-company social or gathering in person at our yearly retreats. We're building something meaningful together, and we're glad you're thinking of joining us. We can't wait to meet you!