Principal Architect

Role

Principal Architect – Middleware

Location

Atlanta, USA

Key Tasks & Responsibilities

• Define responsibilities and integration boundaries across platform layers, ensuring clear ownership, scalable design, and appropriate separation of concerns.
• Define API, messaging, and integration contracts across platform components and external system interfaces, ensuring clear ownership, scalability, and maintainability.
• Contribute to the architecture of the CubeVerse platform, including secure and scalable end‑to‑end connectivity from on‑premises environments to cloud services.
• Define expectations for latency, throughput, availability, fault isolation, and graceful degradation across operational scenarios.
• Define data flows and architectural patterns that support performance, reliability, and continuous optimization across the platform.
• Define scalable coordination patterns across controllers and operational domains, including task allocation, dependency management, and conflict resolution.
• Own architecture decisions, reference designs, and technical review processes; mentor engineers and set engineering standards.

Key Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering with 3+ years in an architect capacity.
• Significant experience in both on‑prem and cloud environments.
• Warehouse logistics, automation, or intralogistics domain experience (ideally 2–3 years).
• Strong experience with modern programming languages and platforms relevant to control systems, orchestration layers, middleware, or large‑scale backend services.
• Proven experience designing orchestration/coordination layers or middleware operating across independent subsystems.
• Strong grounding in distributed systems fundamentals: concurrency, state machines, event‑driven/messaging architectures, fault tolerance, and eventual consistency.
• Experience defining APIs and integration contracts between independently‑owned systems.
• Ability to reason about performance, throughput, reliability, and failure modes in physical or operational environments.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing integrations across independently owned software and control‑system components.
• Track record evolving platform architectures to support scalability, extensibility, and maintainable integration patterns.
• Cloud architecture experience, particularly with secure hybrid connectivity, cloud integration patterns, observability, and platform services connecting on‑premises systems to cloud environments.
• Strong expertise in distributed systems, control‑platform architecture, APIs, messaging, data contracts, concurrency, fault tolerance, and performance‑sensitive software design.
• Strong familiarity with cloud platforms, hybrid connectivity, CI/CD, observability, and modern DevOps practices relevant to platform delivery, operations, and end‑to‑end on‑premises to cloud integration.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution
• Generous Paid Time Off including 12 holidays, paid exercise time, paid volunteer time, and paid parental leave plans for all new parents
• Retirement 401(k) plan with employer match and discretionary profit sharing contribution
• Educational assistance and professional development programs, including mentorship/coaching programs with external industry leaders
• Group Life Insurance, Voluntary Additional Life Insurance, Disability Insurance, Employee Assistance programs, and more

Equal Opportunity Employer

AutoStore is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, pregnancy‑related conditions, and lactation), gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws and ordinances.

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