archer56
Senior Software Engineer, Backend
At a Glance
- Location
- San Jose, California, United States
- Compensation
- targeting a base pay between $144,000.00 - $180,000.00. Actual compensation offered
- Posted
- 2026-07-01T16:00:52-04:00
Key Requirements
Required Skills
Domain Knowledge
- Defense
- Engineering
- IoT
- Supply Chain
Requirements
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)
Distributed tracing and observability stacks
Cost optimization and designing portable cloud-agnostic architectures
Responsibilities
Senior 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.
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