Sr. Software Engineer (BE)

Archer • San Jose, CA

1d • $144,000 - $180,000

About The Position

Archer is an aerospace company based in San Jose, California building an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft with a mission to advance the benefits of sustainable air mobility. We are designing, manufacturing, and operating an all-electric aircraft that can carry four passengers while producing minimal noise.
Our sights are set high and our problems are hard, and we believe that diversity in the workplace is what makes us smarter, drives better insights, and will ultimately lift us all to success. We are dedicated to cultivating an equitable and inclusive environment that embraces our differences, and supports and celebrates all of our team members.
What You’ll Do:
As a Senior Backend Engineer in the Archer AI team, you will architect, develop, and scale the core services and infrastructure that power our cutting-edge AI products. You will take significant vertical technical ownership of complex problems in different areas. Some examples of things you could be involved in:
Design and maintain scalable infrastructure for managing a fleet of IoT sensors and related infrastructure (e.g. a highly robust progressive OTA which requires writing Rust code and deploying infrastructure to manage that process).
Eventually building infrastructure and processes to target an SLO of 8 9s of availability (315 ms of downtime a year doesn’t come from on-call practices).
Design and maintain observability infrastructure
Collaborate with AI experts to get their systems deployed into production.
Consider what we’ve built that might help and solve problems other teams at Archer may have
Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code
Mentor and guide junior team members with diverse technical backgrounds, fostering a culture of engineering excellence and software development best practices.

Requirements

• Kubernetes, Docker, GitOps (Argo CD)
• Layer 7 mesh networks (e.g. Linkerd or Itsio), load balancers, East/West and North/South hot failovers, etc
• Infrastructure as code tooling (we use OpenTofu and Ansible)
• Secrets management
• Distributed tracing and observability stacks
• Cost optimization and designing portable cloud-agnostic architectures

Nice To Haves

• Software development: Rust, Python (numpy, PyTorch, etc)
• Data engineering: Postgres, parquet, Iceberg, Spark, etc
• “Full stack”: From cloud software development to “mobile” IoT. UX ideas on what makes good interfaces a plus, but minimal to no front-end experience needed.
• Network engineering: anycast, Wireguard, BGP, etc
• Security: defense in depth principles, zero trust design, software supply chain attacks, etc
• Message brokers experience (e.g. Kafka or NATS)

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain scalable infrastructure for managing a fleet of IoT sensors and related infrastructure (e.g. a highly robust progressive OTA which requires writing Rust code and deploying infrastructure to manage that process).
• Eventually building infrastructure and processes to target an SLO of 8 9s of availability (315 ms of downtime a year doesn’t come from on-call practices).
• Design and maintain observability infrastructure
• Collaborate with AI experts to get their systems deployed into production.
• Consider what we’ve built that might help and solve problems other teams at Archer may have
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code
• Mentor and guide junior team members with diverse technical backgrounds, fostering a culture of engineering excellence and software development best practices.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed