Archer · 4 hours ago
Sr. Software Engineer (BE)
San Jose, California, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$144K/yr - $180K/yrArcher is an aerospace company based in San Jose, California, building an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft with a mission to advance sustainable air mobility. The Senior Backend Engineer will architect, develop, and scale core services and infrastructure for AI products, taking ownership of complex technical challenges while mentoring junior team members.
AerospaceAir TransportationElectric VehicleManufacturing
No H1B
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
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
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)
Company
Archer
Archer is an aerospace company that developed an electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft tailored for urban air mobility systems.
Founded in 2020
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$3.48BKey Investors
BlackRockStellantis
2025-11-06Post Ipo Equity· $650M
2025-06-12Post Ipo Equity· $850M
2025-02-11Post Ipo Equity· $300M
Leadership Team
Adam Goldstein
Founder and CEO
Tom Muniz
Chief Technology Officer
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