Principal Cloud Architect

Job Description

Salary :

Swift Navigation is hiring. We are the market leader in automotive precision GNSS and have been awarded programs for over 10 million ADAS-enabled and autonomous vehicles worldwide across 20+ automotive OEMs & suppliers, as well as multiple mobile handset OEMs.

Our flagship service is Skylark, a 24 / 7 GNSS corrections service that enables centimeter-level navigation safely. Skylark includes a global GNSS station network, redundant data center architecture, and advanced monitoring algorithms to ensure 99.9% availability and fewer than 1 failure per 1,142 years of driving. We process 1.4 billion satellite signals per hour to support our scale.

We are seeking a Cloud Architect to develop our cloud infrastructure and services for our global GNSS corrections service, supporting millions of concurrent users. Your expertise will enhance the scalability, reliability, and efficiency of our services, maintaining our leadership in high-precision autonomous navigation.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design of scalable, high-availability GNSS correction cloud services supporting over 8 million users, with plans to expand to hundreds of millions.
• Design and oversee high-reliability, cost-optimized services used in safety-critical applications.
• Develop external service APIs for customer integration.
• Architect systems for real-time ingestion, processing, and analysis of GNSS data streams.
• Ensure security and safety standards, maintaining certifications like ISO26262, ISO27001, ISO20000, ISO21434.
• Promote best practices in cloud security, DevOps, automation, monitoring, and deployment.
• Collaborate with engineering, algorithms, software development, and operations teams.
• Support the development and integration of new products into our cloud infrastructure.
• Lead migration to a multi-tenant, scalable cloud architecture, including CI / CD, telemetry, and diagnostics systems.

Required Skills

Preferred Skills

Benefits

Headquartered in San Francisco, we offer flexible vacations, competitive salaries, employer-covered health insurance, 401(k), flexible spending, and HSA for US employees. We foster a dynamic environment with tech talks, mentorship, and international collaboration.

The US salary range for this full-time role is $145,000 - $230,000 plus equity and benefits. Salary is determined by location, experience, and skills. Specifics will be discussed during hiring.

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in accordance with SFPC Art.49.

Remote work is supported.

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