What You'll Do:As aSenior Backend Engineer at Archer, 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 (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
At Archer we aim to attract, retain, and motivate talent that possess the skills and leadership necessary to grow our business. We drive a pay-for-performance culture and reward performance that supports the Company's business strategy. For this position we are targeting a base pay between $144,000.00 - $180,000.00. Actual compensation offered will be determined by factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
