Staff DevOps Engineer

Archer, San Jose, California +1

What you will 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.

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Staff DevOps Engineer

Archer, San Jose, California +1

What you will do

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.

Nice to have

Deep experience with Apache Pulsar (or Kafka) handling high-throughput, event-driven streaming architectures.
Rust experience with async runtimes (Tokio) and message-driven architectures.
Experience architecting real-time media pipelines using WebRTC (LiveKit, RealtimeKit) with a focus on server-side jitter buffering and network impairment handling.
Deep understanding of audio codecs, specifically optimizing server-side Opus encoding/decoding for CPU efficiency and low-latency distribution.
Familiarity with MLOps frameworks, GPU orchestration in Kubernetes, and serving LLMs at scale.
Background in high-availability, real-time systems, telecommunications, or safety-critical networks.
Prior experience or a deep interest in aerospace, aviation, or autonomous tracking systems.

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 $200,000 - $250,000. Actual compensation offered will be determined by factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

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