# Principal Cloud Architect at Swift Navigation

- Company: Swift Navigation
- What the company does: Precise GNSS solutions for autonomy, robotics, GIS & fleets. Unlock centimeter-level accuracy for navigation, mapping & tracking worldwide. Backed by NEA.
- Company website: https://www.swiftnav.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Remote (US)
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $145K to $230K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2025-07-14
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://swiftnav.bamboohr.com/careers/62
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/swift-navigation-principal-cloud-architect/

## About the role

Our flagship service is Skylark , a 24/7 GNSS corrections service that allows for centimeter-level navigation safely. Skylark consists of a global GNSS station network, redundant data center architecture, and state-of-the-art monitoring algorithms to ensure 99.9% guaranteed availability and fewer than 1 failure per 1,142 years of driving. To give you a sense of our scale, we process 1.4 billion satellite signals per hour .

## What they're looking for

- Lead the architecture of scalable, high-availability GNSS corrections cloud services and infrastructure supporting the current user base of 8 million plus and growing to 100s of millions of users
- Lead the architecture and design of services necessary to build a high availability, high reliability service that is used in safety of life applications and is cost optimized
- Lead design of external service APIs for customer use
- Lead the architecture of systems for scalable and reliable real-time ingestion, processing, and analysis of streaming data from diverse, real-world GNSS data sources
- Architect safety and security as a foundation of the cloud services. Help maintain related certifications ( ISO26262, ISO27001, ISO20000, ISO21434, etc)
- Drive adoption of best practices in cloud services, security, and DevOps, including automation, monitoring, and continuous deployment

Tags: Engineering