Principal Cloud Architect

Who we are

With its A.I.-powered robotic technology platform, Symbotic is changing the way consumer goods move through the supply chain. Intelligent software orchestrates advanced robots in a high-density, end-to-end system – reinventing warehouse automation for increased efficiency, speed and flexibility.

What we need

Symbotic is seeking a Principal Cloud Architect to join our Platform Engineering team within our Information Technology organization. Your job will be to define and drive Symbotic's cloud architecture strategy on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), establish cloud-native platform standards, and provide technical leadership for the next generation of scalable, secure, and AI-enabled engineering platforms.

This is a ground-floor opportunity on a newly formed team. We are in the early stages of a major cloud build-out: migrating more than one hundred environments — thousands of VMs — to the cloud while architecting greenfield platforms that must provision hundreds to thousands of instances on demand and handle petabyte-scale data generated daily by our robotics systems. You will design the self-service platform model that lets a small team support this scale: engineering teams get resource pools they configure and manage end to end, while Platform Engineering owns the guardrails, validation, and visibility that keep the platform stable, secure, and cost-efficient.

This is a hands-on, player-coach role — not a whiteboard-only position. You will set enterprise architecture direction and governance, but you will also prototype solutions, review designs, and work side-by-side with engineers to land the platforms you architect. You will partner with engineering, infrastructure, security, DevOps, AI, and product teams across cloud, on-premises, and edge environments where our robots run.

What we do

The Platform Engineering team is part of the Information Technology organization and is responsible for building and operating the foundational technology platforms that enable software development, cloud infrastructure, automation, observability, developer productivity, and enterprise engineering services across Symbotic.

Our team delivers the shared cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes infrastructure, developer tools, data services, and operational capabilities that power both enterprise applications and next-generation robotics solutions. We are a nimble, newly bootstrapped team — which means outsized ownership, direct executive visibility, and the chance to define the platform architecture from the ground up.

What you'll do

• 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 stability.

• 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.

• Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers and architects, run architecture review forums, and influence enterprise technology strategy with executive leadership.

What you'll need

• 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