Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Archer
$163-204k
More information about location
Office located in San Jose, CA
Urban air mobility developer
Open for applications
Urban air mobility developer
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$163-204k
More information about location
Office located in San Jose, CA
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the benefits of sustainable air mobility.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or a similar role with a strong focus on operational excellence
- Deep expertise in Amazon EKS, including cluster provisioning, management, and troubleshooting
- Extensive experience with observability tools and practices, including Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, or similar
- Proven track record in designing and implementing robust data pipelines (e.g., Kafka, Airflow, Spark)
- Strong background in CI/CD methodologies and tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD)
- Expert-level knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS preferred), including infrastructure-as-code principles
- Comprehensive understanding of security best practices for cloud environments, applications, and data
- Proficiency in Docker for containerization and orchestration
- Advanced scripting and programming skills in Python, Bash, and PowerShell
- Solid understanding of networking concepts, distributed systems, and operating systems
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills
- Ability to work independently and as part of a highly collaborative team
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
Desirable
- Experience with other Kubernetes distributions or cloud providers
- Familiarity with compliance frameworks (e.g., SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR)
- Certifications in AWS, Kubernetes, or other relevant technologies
What the job involves
- Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of highly available, scalable, and secure cloud-native infrastructure on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
- Develop and implement comprehensive observability strategies, including monitoring, logging, and alerting, to ensure the health and performance of our systems
- Architect and optimize data pipelines to ensure efficient and reliable data flow across various platforms
- Drive the continuous improvement of our CI/CD pipelines, promoting best practices for automated testing, deployment, and release management
- Champion cloud-first strategies, leveraging the full capabilities of cloud platforms for infrastructure, services, and operations
- Implement and enforce robust security practices across our infrastructure, applications, and data
- Design and maintain Docker-based containerization solutions for our applications
- Develop and maintain automation scripts and tools using Python, Bash, and PowerShell
- Collaborate with development teams to ensure reliability is built into the software development lifecycle from inception
- Troubleshoot complex production issues across various layers of the stack, identifying root causes and implementing preventative measures
- Mentor and guide junior SREs, sharing knowledge and fostering a culture of operational excellence
- Participate in on-call rotations to support production systems
Our take
Electric air taxis may sound like a pipedream, but companies like Archer are in the process of testing models that they hope to begin producing at scale in 2025. Designed to be quiet and efficient, its current model can fly at speeds of 150 miles per hour and cover 60 miles per flight. With urban transport in mind, these air taxis are both greener and vastly more efficient than traditional vehicles.
Given the congestion and pollution issues that many cities are facing, it's easy to imagine such transport taking over. It’s also worth noting that although Archer plans to run them with human pilots initially, the company has automation as part of its long-term goals.
Other players exist in this space: EHang, a Chinese firm, flew its first aerial taxi in America in 2020. However, Archer has big backers and customers such as United Airlines (acting both as an investor and launch customer) and manufacturing partner Stellantis with whom it is mass-producing its flagship Midnight eVTOL aircraft.
There's certainly a growing demand for clean transport without sacrificing speed, but many barriers still remain in Archer's way as it must help to initiate a seismic shift in transportation infrastructure and behaviors to reach mass adoption. That being said, it has the funding behind it, raising close to $2 billion in post-IPO funding since 2021.
Freddie
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
(CEO)Started their career in financial services, before co-founding Vettery, a talent marketplace, in 2012. Founded Archer in 2018.
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