Senior Staff SRE: Cloud-Native, Scalable Systems Architect

Archer; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Archer is seeking a highly experienced Sr. Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join our growing team in California. You will own the reliability, scalability, performance, and security of core systems and services, designing robust cloud-native infrastructure on AWS and EKS.

You will drive observability, CI/CD automation, data pipelines, and secure operations, collaborating with development teams and handling on-call rotations to maintain production systems' health and resilience.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or similar roles focusing on operational excellence.
• Strong expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and security best practices.
• Hands-on experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
• Excellent problem solving, analytics, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud-native infrastructure (AWS/EKS).
• Develop observability strategies with monitoring, logging, and alerting.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines and release management practices.
• Build and maintain data pipelines (Kafka, Airflow, Spark).
• Collaborate with development teams to bake reliability into software lifecycle.
• Handle on-call rotations and troubleshoot production issues.

Skills

SRE

DevOps

CI/CD

Observability

Python

Bash

PowerShell

Docker/Kubernetes

Security

Networking

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI

ArgoCD

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Kafka

Airflow

Spark

Terraform

OpenRouter

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Archer is seeking a highly experienced Sr. Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join our growing team in California. You will own the reliability, scalability, performance, and security of core systems and services, designing robust cloud-native infrastructure on AWS and EKS.

You will drive observability, CI/CD automation, data pipelines, and secure operations, collaborating with development teams and handling on-call rotations to maintain production systems' health and resilience.