Manager, Centralized Configuration

Job Description

Symbotic is seeking a Manager, Centralized Configuration to join the Release and Deployment organization. This role will lead a team responsible for the governance, management, and evolution of configurations across Symbotic’s software and automation platforms. As our systems scale and become increasingly distributed, centralized configuration management is critical to ensuring consistency, reliability, and efficient deployment across environments.

This leader will bring together configuration expertise from multiple teams, including software and industrial controls, to establish a unified approach to how system configuration is defined, managed, and deployed. The role will partner closely with software engineering, controls engineering, and release teams to ensure configuration changes are structured, traceable, and scalable across our rapidly growing platform.

What you’ll do

• Lead and grow a team responsible for centralized configuration management across Symbotic systems.

• Establish and maintain the architecture, services and processes for managing system configurations across software and automation platforms.

• Define standards for how configuration is structured, versioned, validated, and deployed across environments.

• Partner with software engineering, industrial controls, and release teams to ensure configuration changes are safe, scalable, and traceable.

• Drive improvements in configuration tooling, automation, and deployment processes to support faster and more reliable system releases.

• Ensure strong governance and documentation around configuration changes and system dependencies.

• Identify opportunities to reduce complexity and improve consistency in how configurations are managed across products and deployments.

• Support cross-team initiatives that require coordinated configuration changes across multiple system components.

What you'll need

• Minimum of 8 years of experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field.

• Experience working with complex software systems or automation platforms, ideally in environments involving both software and industrial controls operating in a hybrid Cloud environment.

• Experience managing or coordinating configuration management processes across multiple systems or environments.

• Familiarity with software release, deployment, or DevOps workflows.

• Strong organizational and systems-thinking skills, with the ability to manage dependencies across multiple teams.

• Experience leading or mentoring engineers or technical specialists.

• Ability to drive process improvements and operational rigor in complex technical environments.

• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work effectively across engineering disciplines.