# Chief Information Security Officer at Zipline

- Company: Zipline
- What the company does: Zipline delivers food, groceries, and medicine in minutes with fast, reliable, zero emission delivery. Backed by Sequoia and Techstars.
- Company website: https://flyzipline.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: South San Francisco, California, USA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $250K to $350K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-02
- Apply by: 2026-10-17
- Apply: https://www.zipline.com/open-roles/7984696003?gh_jid=7984696003
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/zipline-chief-information-security-officer/

## About the role

Zipline operates autonomous delivery systems spanning cloud services, customer and operational data, embedded software, aircraft, and field infrastructure. Security must protect those systems, customers, partners, and the people who rely on them while enabling engineering teams to deliver safely and quickly.

## What they're looking for

- Set security and privacy strategy, risk posture, roadmap, operating model, and investment priorities across product, infrastructure, data, corporate technology, and physical systems
- Identify and sequence the company’s highest-consequence risks, driving clear remediation decisions with Engineering, IT, Legal, Safety, Operations, and Physical Security
- Advise executives and the board on material security and privacy risks, translating technical findings into business tradeoffs and investment decisions
- Lead a software security engineering team that contributes production fixes, reusable platforms, and controls that eliminate systemic vulnerability classes
- Establish security architecture and practices for identity, access control, secrets, data protection, applications, cloud infrastructure, embedded software, aircraft, and field infrastructure
- Lead threat modeling, testing, vulnerability management, incident response, and security reviews, measure risk coverage, remediation, readiness, control effectiveness, and secure-engineering adoption

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