Senior Middleware Architect - Hybrid Cloud & On-Prem

AutoStore System, Inc; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision plans

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Paid Time Off including holidays

401(k) with company match

Educational assistance and mentorship

Life and Disability Insurance

Employee Assistance programs

Job summary

AutoStore System, Inc in Atlanta, USA, is seeking a Principal Architect to own a substantial portion of our middleware. You will partner with engineering leadership to shape the technical vision, craft scalable end-to-end designs, and ensure secure, observable integration between cloud services and on-prem systems.

The role requires deep experience in distributed systems, APIs/messaging, and delivering complex platform architectures.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering with 3+ in an architect capacity.
• Experience in both on-prem and cloud environments.
• Warehouse logistics, automation, or intralogistics domain exposure (preferred).
• Strong experience with modern programming languages and platforms relevant to control systems, orchestration, middleware, or large-scale backend services.
• Proven design of orchestration/coordination layers or middleware across subsystems.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Define responsibilities and integration boundaries across platform layers with clear ownership and scalable design.
• Define API, messaging, and integration contracts across platform components and external interfaces.
• Contribute to the CubeVerse architecture with secure, scalable end-to-end connectivity from on-prem to cloud services.
• Define latency, throughput, availability, fault isolation, and graceful degradation expectations.
• Define data flows and architectural patterns supporting performance and reliability.
• Define scalable coordination patterns across controllers and operational domains.
• Own architecture decisions, reference designs, and engineering standards; mentor engineers.

Skills

Software architecture

Distributed systems

Cloud integration

APIs & messaging

Leadership & mentoring

Hybrid on-prem/cloud

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Job description

AutoStore System, Inc in Atlanta, USA, is seeking a Principal Architect to own a substantial portion of our middleware. You will partner with engineering leadership to shape the technical vision, craft scalable end-to-end designs, and ensure secure, observable integration between cloud services and on-prem systems.

The role requires deep experience in distributed systems, APIs/messaging, and delivering complex platform architectures.