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# Senior Software Engineer, Backend

- **Company:** ARCHER
- **Location:** San Jose, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $144,000.0 - $180,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Application Layers, Border Gateway Protocol, Cloud Computing, Information Engineering, Python (Programming Language), Key Management, PostgreSQL, Mesh Networking, Message Broker, NumPy, Octopus Deploy, Ansible, Zero Trust Network Access, Software Engineering, Software Organization, Parquet, Load Balancing, Pytorch, Apache Spark, Backend, Git Flow, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Linkerd (Service Mesh), Front End Software Development, Dynatrace, Docker
- **Published:** May 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=f96742bf12f86ef3

## About the Role

* Layer 7 mesh networks (e.g. Linkerd or Itsio), load balancers, East/West and North/South hot failovers, etc
 * Infrastructure as code tooling (we use OpenTofu and Ansible)
 * Secrets management
 * Distributed tracing and observability stacks
 * Cost optimization and designing portable cloud-agnostic architectures

## Description

As a Senior Backend Engineer in the Archer AI team, 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. Some examples of things you could be involved in:

 * Design and maintain scalable infrastructure for managing a fleet of IoT sensors and related infrastructure (e.g. a 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
 * Collaborate with AI experts to get their systems deployed into production.
 * Consider what we've built that might help and solve problems other teams at Archer may have
 * Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code
 * Mentor and guide junior team members with diverse technical backgrounds, fostering a culture of engineering excellence and software development best practices., * Software development: Rust, Python (numpy, PyTorch, etc)
 * Data engineering: Postgres, parquet, Iceberg, Spark, etc
 * "Full stack": From cloud software development to "mobile" IoT. UX ideas on what makes good interfaces a plus, but minimal to no front-end experience needed.
 * Network engineering: anycast, Wireguard, BGP, etc
 * Security: defense in depth principles, zero trust design, software supply chain attacks, etc
 * Message brokers experience (e.g. Kafka or NATS)


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