- Robot type
- Warehouse and Logistics
- Location
- WilmingtonNorth CarolinaUSA
- Job type
- Software
- Posted
- Jul 23, 2026
- Salary
- $180,000–$247,500 a year
Full-time
Principal Cloud Architect
Job description
We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or genetic information.
Symbotic is an automation technology leader reimagining the supply chain with its end-to-end, AI-powered robotic and software platform. Symbotic reinvents the warehouse as a strategic asset for the world’s largest retail, wholesale, and food & beverage companies.
We are a community of innovators, collaborators and pioneers who embrace our differences, because we know unique perspectives make us stronger and smarter. Every perspective matters.
Job responsibilities
- Define and govern enterprise cloud architecture and cloud-native platform standards on GCP, and own the multi-year cloud platform roadmap.
- Architect for hyperscale growth: design provisioning, networking, and data architectures that scale rapidly and elastically to hundreds or thousands of instances and petabyte-scale daily data volumes.
- Lead large-scale cloud migration and modernization, moving 100+ existing environments to GCP alongside greenfield, Kubernetes-based (GKE) platform initiatives from strategy through production adoption.
- Build a true self-service platform, not a ticket-driven service: developer self-service, golden paths, resource-pool provisioning with guardrails, and the validation and merge-visibility controls that protect platform…
- Partner with the Security team to establish workload isolation across cloud resource hierarchies, secure disaster recovery, and snapshot/backup capabilities that ensure rapid recovery.
- Own cloud cost optimization and FinOps: design for efficiency so the platform delivers maximum capability within a disciplined budget.
- Champion AI-powered engineering — from AI-assisted development to intelligent, automated operations — so a small team can do more with less.
- Drive Platform Engineering capabilities including CI/CD, GitOps, and Infrastructure as Code that measurably improve developer velocity.
Job requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Minimum of 12 years designing and implementing enterprise and cloud architectures, including at least one large-scale cloud migration or platform modernization you personally led.
- Minimum of 5 years in a Principal Architect, Lead Architect, or equivalent senior technical leadership role.
- Deep expertise with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) including GKE, GCP resource hierarchy and IAM, VPC design, and data services — or demonstrated depth on AWS/Azure with clear ability to lead on GCP.
- Proven experience operating at high scale: rapid, automated provisioning of large fleets and architectures handling very large data volumes and traffic.
- Strong experience with Kubernetes, containers, microservices, distributed systems, and APIs.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred) and GitOps-driven delivery.
- Experience building self-service Platform Engineering, CI/CD, and DevOps solutions adopted by multiple engineering teams.