Jobs Companies Zip Engineering Manager, Online Storage - SF

About this Engineering Manager, Online Storage - SF role at Zip

Zip · Hybrid · San Francisco

About Zip

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.

Your Role

We're seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineering Manager to lead our Online Storage team. The Online Storage team is a foundational infrastructure team within Zip's Engineering organization. We own and operate the core storage, search, and permissions infrastructure that powers everything Zip's product teams build — spanning relational databases (Aurora RDS), caching layers (Elasticache, MemoryDB), DynamoDB, S3, OpenSearch, and the permissions framework that ensures every user sees exactly the data they're authorized to see.

You Will

  • Lead and grow the Online Storage team (doubling in 6 months): coaching, performance, hiring.

  • Drive the multi-cell scalability program (data isolation, regional redistribution, cell provisioning) partnering closely with Core Infra.

  • Own reliability and disaster recovery for all core storage systems (Aurora, Elasticache/MemoryDB, DynamoDB, S3, OpenSearch) to defined RPO/RTO targets.

  • Set technical direction for the unified search platform and the permissions-system consolidation.

  • Operate as an internal platform partner: triage product-team needs, set guardrails, balance their velocity against platform stability.

  • Own operational excellence: on-call health, incident response, observability for the data layer.

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of software engineering experience.

  • 2+ years of experience managing teams of 6 or more engineers.

  • Hands-on experience building or operating production data infrastructure at scale: relational databases, caching, distributed storage, or search.

  • Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related technical field.

Nice to have

  • Experience in SaaS or FinTech industry.

  • Experience bootstrapping and landing large scale 0->1 projects.

  • Experience working at a small company with diverse responsibilities.

  • Track record of scaling a team through hiring.

The salary range for this role is $250,000 - $300,000. 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.

 

Perks & Benefits

At Zip, we’re committed to providing our employees with everything they need to do their best work.

  • 📈 Start-up equity

  • 🦷 100% health, vision & dental coverage options

  • 🍽️ Catered breakfast, lunch, & dinner

  • 🌴 Flexible PTO

  • 🏋️‍♀️ ClassPass membership

  • 🚍 Monthly commuter benefit

  • 🚠 Team building events & happy hours

  • 💻 Home office stipend

  • 🛜 Phone/internet reimbursement

  • 🏠 Hybrid model + 5 flexible remote days per quarter

  • 🍼 Paid parental leave

  • 🐣 Fertility benefits

  • 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

  • 🤖 Unlimited AI token usage

 

We're looking to hire Zipsters and that means hiring people who take ownership, communicate openly, have an underdog mindset, and are excited to increase the pace of innovation for every business in the world. We encourage all candidates to apply even if your experience doesn't exactly match up to our job description. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workspace where everyone (regardless of age, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and more) feels like they belong. We look forward to hearing from you!

Ready to apply to Zip?
Apply to Zip

How this Engineering Manager salary compares

This role pays $275,000/yrin line with the typical range for Engineering Manager roles.

$167,972 median $252,090 $350,000

Typical range $215,875–$285,856/yr, from 327 comparable Engineering Manager listings on JobsRadar (pay annualized to USD). See Engineering Manager salary insights →

Similar jobs

Sign up for suggestions tailored to the jobs you open and the searches you save.

More jobs at Zip

See all jobs at Zip →

Apply now
🤖

Whoa — hold up

JobsRadar was built for real people having a rough time in their job search — not for automated requests. You're clicking way too fast and you're now temporarily blocked.

Come back later. If you're genuinely job hunting, we've got your back — just act like a human.

Catch your next role the second it’s posted.

Create a free account and we’ll watch the boards for you — the instant a job matches your search, it lands in your inbox or Telegram. No digging, no refreshing.

Create free account

Free forever · takes 30 seconds · already have one?

Get an edge on your job hunt.

Join our Telegram channel for the stuff that helps you land the role — salary benchmarks, the weekly market pulse, and new-feature drops. No spam, just signal.

Join the channel — it's free