Staff DevOps Engineer

About the role

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, Archer is a leader in the next-gen aerospace sector building an end-to-end advanced air mobility platform that delivers air taxis, unmanned aircraft systems (“UAS”), aviation-related physical artificial intelligence (“AI”) solutions, and other technologies to customers worldwide across the commercial aerospace and defense sectors.

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 Staff DevOps Engineer, you will architect, develop, and scale the core services, real-time data pipelines, and distributed infrastructure that power our cutting-edge AI products. You will bridge the gap between complex AI models and production-ready systems, ensuring that our high-throughput, real-time data streaming environment is reliable, secure, and infinitely scalable.

- Architect and maintain highly available backend systems, distributed data pipelines, and scalable cloud infrastructure to support real-time AI applications.

- Leverage infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and cloud-native tooling to build, manage, and optimize our production, staging, and development environments.

- Build and manage stream-processing jobs capable of handling global, high-frequency data streams with ultra-low latency.

- Work cross-functionally with AI Research, Engineering, and Data Science teams to containerize, deploy, orchestrate, and monitor scalable ML models and infrastructure.

- Own the full development lifecycle—from system design and infrastructure provisioning to deployment, proactive monitoring, and capacity planning.

- Maximize system performance, observability, and reliability; respond to high-priority production issues with advanced debugging, root cause analysis, and blameless post-mortems.

- Mentor and guide team members, fostering an engineering culture centered around DevOps practices, automation, and distributed systems best practices.

What You Need

- BS/MS/PhD degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.

- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with a heavy focus on backend systems, distributed architectures, and infrastructure management.

- Strong proficiency in Java, Python and/or Rust, with a solid grasp of writing high-performance, concurrent backend code.

- Production experience with stream-processing frameworks, specifically Apache Flink.

- Experience setting up observability stacks (eg Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, etc.)

- Solid experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), including configuring network policies, storage, and auto-scaling.