Staff DevOps Engineer: Real-Time AI Infra Architect

Archer; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Archer is hiring a Staff DevOps Engineer to architect, develop, and scale core services and real-time data pipelines powering our AI products. You will bridge AI models with production-ready systems, ensuring ultra-low latency streaming and infinitely scalable infrastructure.

You will own the full development lifecycle from design to deployment, optimize performance, and guide the team in DevOps practices. Strong cloud, IaC, and observability skills are required for this high-impact role.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's/Master's/PhD in a technical field.
• Extensive backend and distributed systems experience.
• Experience with real-time streaming data pipelines and AI workloads.
• Proficient in at least one modern language (Java, Python, Rust).
• Hands-on with GitOps, CI/CD pipelines, and IaC tooling.
• Cloud platforms and container orchestration in production environments.
• Strong observability, monitoring, and incident response capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Architect, develop, and scale core services and real-time data pipelines.
• Maintain highly available backend systems and cloud infrastructure.
• Leverage IaC and cloud-native tooling for prod/stage/dev environments.
• Build and manage stream-processing jobs for high-frequency data with low latency.
• Collaborate with AI/DS teams to deploy ML models and infra.
• Own full lifecycle from design to deployment and capacity planning.
• Improve performance, observability, and reliability; perform root cause analysis.
• Mentor team members and promote DevOps best practices.

Skills

GitOps

CI/CD automation

Containerization

Kubernetes

Java, Python, Rust

Real-time data streaming

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Infrastructure as code

PostgreSQL/Redis

Observability stacks

Pulsar/Kafka

Tokio

WebRTC streaming (LiveKit)

MLOps & GPU orchestration

HA real-time systems

Aerospace/aviation interest

Education

BS/MS/PhD in CS/SE or related field

Tools

Argo CD

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenTofu/Terraform

Ansible

PostgreSQL

Redis

Grafana

Prometheus

ELK

Pulsar

Kafka

LiveKit / RealtimeKit

Tokio

Opus codec optimization

Job description

Archer is hiring a Staff DevOps Engineer to architect, develop, and scale core services and real-time data pipelines powering our AI products. You will bridge AI models with production-ready systems, ensuring ultra-low latency streaming and infinitely scalable infrastructure.

You will own the full development lifecycle from design to deployment, optimize performance, and guide the team in DevOps practices. Strong cloud, IaC, and observability skills are required for this high-impact role.