Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain scalable infrastructure for managing a fleet of IoT sensors and related infrastructure (i.e. 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 You Need:
• Kubernetes, Docker, GitOps (Argo CD)
• Layer 7 mesh networks (e.g. Linkerd or Istio), 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
• Bonus Qualifications:
• 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)
• Please note that this job description is intended to provide a general overview of the position and does not include an exhaustive list of responsibilities and qualifications
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Additional Information

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.

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