Staff DevOps
Archer · San Jose, CA
$172,800–$216,000from the description
Jul 7, 2026
San Jose, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior infrastructure role focused on designing and operating the backend systems, real-time data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure that underpin AI-driven products at an electric aviation company. Day-to-day work spans stream processing with Apache Flink, Kubernetes-based ML model deployment, CI/CD automation, and observability stack management. Best suited to engineers with deep distributed systems and cloud infrastructure experience who are comfortable owning the full lifecycle from architecture through production support.
Senior level · 5+ years · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA · Bachelor's required · Full-time
Advertised as Staff, but the requirements read as Senior.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 220 people in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 110–340
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $217,796 (middle half $177,469–$231,052). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The title is 'Staff DevOps Engineer' but the role's actual scope — 5+ years required, ownership of a single product's infrastructure and pipelines, no explicit cross-org technical authority — aligns more closely with Senior than Staff on the career ladder. Advertised seniority reflects the title; assessed seniority reflects the requirements.
Java, Python, and Rust are presented as a group ('Java, Python and/or Rust'); Java and Python are the primary named pair with Rust as an alternative, so they are captured as a single requirement with alternatives. Rust also appears separately under Bonus Qualifications with async runtime specifics (Tokio), so it is additionally listed as a preferred skill there.
The degree requirement states 'BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field' with no 'or equivalent experience' escape clause, so Bachelor's is treated as a hard minimum.
Grafana, Prometheus, and ELK are listed as examples of an observability stack ('eg Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, etc.'); Grafana is used as the primary name with the others as alternatives since they are interchangeable components of the same requirement.
OpenTofu and Terraform are listed together as IaC tools; Terraform is the canonical name with OpenTofu as an alternative.
Valkey and Redis are listed together as in-memory datastores; Redis is the more widely known name with Valkey as an alternative.
Apache Pulsar (or Kafka), WebRTC, Rust/Tokio, MLOps/GPU orchestration/LLMs, and aerospace background all appear under 'Bonus Qualifications' and are marked preferred.
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