Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Archer
$133.4-200k
More information about location
Office located in San Jose, CA
Electric air taxis
Open for applications
Electric air taxis
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$133.4-200k
More information about location
Office located in San Jose, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To unlock the skies, freeing everyone to reimagine how they move and spend time.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 8+ years in SRE, Production Engineering, or high-scale DevOps environments
- Advanced Programming: Strong software engineering fundamentals. You should be as comfortable writing a microservice or a custom API as you are configuring a load balancer
- Metric Logic: Deep understanding of how to derive meaningful SLIs from complex distributed systems (latency percentiles, success rates, etc.)
- The Stack:
- Orchestration: Expert-level Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, or self-managed)
- IaC: Advanced Terraform or Pulumi
- Observability: Mastery of the "Three Pillars" (Logs, Metrics, Traces) using tools like Prometheus, Jaeger, or Datadog
- Communication: Ability to distill complex system health data into clear, actionable reports for both engineers and business leadership
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join our SRE organization as a technical specialist
- In this role, you will focus on engineering the "glue" that makes our systems resilient—building custom internal tools, refining our observability stack, and ensuring our SLO/SLI frameworks are technically sound
- You will work alongside our existing SRE teams to convert manual operational tasks into automated, programmable infrastructure
- Standardize SRE Procedures: Design and implement consistent technical procedures for incident response, error budget tracking, and production readiness across our service catalog
- Engineer SLOs & SLIs: Technically instrument our services to capture precise SLIs. You will be responsible for the backend logic that calculates Error Budgets and triggers automated alerts based on burn rates
- Build Special Purpose Tooling: Write production-grade code (Go, Python, etc.) to build internal tools that solve specific infrastructure gaps, such as custom Kubernetes operators, automated remediation scripts, or deployment safety gates
- Executive & Operational Dashboards: Create a unified observability layer. This includes deep-dive Grafana/Datadog dashboards for real-time debugging and high-level, aggregate views for executive stakeholders to monitor SLA compliance
- Toil Reduction: Identify repetitive operational tasks across the group and build the automation necessary to eliminate them
- Collaborative Engineering: Work within the SRE group to provide expert-level code reviews for infrastructure changes and contribute to the collective codebase of our internal platforms
Our take
With traffic, noise, and emissions becoming major challenges for urban life, Archer is building electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircrafts, led by its flagship model, Midnight, offering a cleaner, quieter alternative to traditional short-haul travel. The idea is simple: replace long car rides with quick, sustainable fluights that lift off vertically, fly over the gridlock, and help reduce urban pollution. It's a bold shift in transportation, but one that could meaningfully change how we navigate cities in the years ahead.
Midnight is designed to make these short flights practical, safe, and efficient. Its electric powertrain significantly reduce noise and emissions compared to helicopters (one of the biggest barriers to adopting urban air mobility at scale). However, eVTOLs face hurdles before becoming an everyday reality, including regulatory approvals, infrastructure build-out, and the operational testing needed to prove long-term safety and reliability. Archer is addressing these challenges with major manufacturing investment, deep engineering partnerships, and ongoing flight testing in the US and abroad.
Even with these barriers, Archer has been moving from success to success. The company is set to be the official air taxi provider for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Los Angeles. And its recent acquisition of Hawthorne Airport in LA will serve as both a launch site and an innovation hub for next-generation, AI-powered aviation operations. On the commercial side, Archer's partnerships with United Airlines and its growing international presence signal strong industry confidence. COmbines with newly expanded funding and successful long-range flight tests, Archer sure is a promising player in eVTOl aviation.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
44% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jul 2020
$55.7m
SERIES A
Total funding: $55.7m
Company HQ
Tasman and Zanker, San Jose, CA
Leadership
Adam Goldstein
(Founder & CEO)Began their career in Financial Services, before co-founding Vettery, a talent marketplace, in 2012. Founded Archer in 2018.
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