diff --git a/base/symbols/symbols.Deployment.yaml b/base/symbols/symbols.Deployment.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 7093487b6eb3..000000000000
--- a/base/symbols/symbols.Deployment.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,89 +0,0 @@
-apiVersion: apps/v1
-kind: Deployment
-metadata:
-  annotations:
-    description: Backend for symbols operations.
-    kubectl.kubernetes.io/default-container: symbols
-  labels:
-    deploy: sourcegraph
-    sourcegraph-resource-requires: no-cluster-admin
-    app.kubernetes.io/component: symbols
-  name: symbols
-spec:
-  minReadySeconds: 10
-  replicas: 1
-  revisionHistoryLimit: 10
-  selector:
-    matchLabels:
-      app: symbols
-  strategy:
-    rollingUpdate:
-      maxSurge: 1
-      maxUnavailable: 1
-    type: RollingUpdate
-  template:
-    metadata:
-      labels:
-        deploy: sourcegraph
-        app: symbols
-    spec:
-      containers:
-      - name: symbols
-        env:
-        - name: SYMBOLS_CACHE_SIZE_MB
-          valueFrom:
-            resourceFieldRef:
-              containerName: symbols
-              resource: requests.ephemeral-storage
-              divisor: 1M
-        - name: POD_NAME
-          valueFrom:
-            fieldRef:
-              fieldPath: metadata.name
-        - name: CACHE_DIR
-          value: /mnt/cache/$(POD_NAME)
-          # OTEL_AGENT_HOST must be defined before OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT to substitute the node IP on which the DaemonSet pod instance runs in the latter variable
-        - name: OTEL_AGENT_HOST
-          valueFrom:
-            fieldRef:
-              fieldPath: status.hostIP
-        - name: OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT
-          value: http://$(OTEL_AGENT_HOST):4317
-        image: index.docker.io/sourcegraph/symbols:6.2.1106@sha256:3a2e282d27d0669323532b7515fc0b76016b4e15c8049540382312a5563a7f1c
-        terminationMessagePolicy: FallbackToLogsOnError
-        livenessProbe:
-          httpGet:
-            path: /healthz
-            port: http
-            scheme: HTTP
-          initialDelaySeconds: 60
-          timeoutSeconds: 5
-        readinessProbe:
-          httpGet:
-            path: /healthz
-            port: http
-            scheme: HTTP
-          periodSeconds: 5
-          timeoutSeconds: 5
-        ports:
-        - containerPort: 3184
-          name: http
-        - containerPort: 6060
-          name: debug
-        resources:
-          limits:
-            cpu: "2"
-            ephemeral-storage: "12G"
-            memory: 2G
-          requests:
-            cpu: 500m
-            ephemeral-storage: "10G"
-            memory: 500M
-        volumeMounts:
-        - mountPath: /mnt/cache
-          name: cache-ssd
-      securityContext:
-        runAsUser: 0
-      volumes:
-      - emptyDir: {}
-        name: cache-ssd
diff --git a/base/symbols/symbols.Service.yaml b/base/symbols/symbols.Service.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index e82ce4a2c810..000000000000
--- a/base/symbols/symbols.Service.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: Service
-metadata:
-  annotations:
-    prometheus.io/port: "6060"
-    sourcegraph.prometheus/scrape: "true"
-  labels:
-    app: symbols
-    deploy: sourcegraph
-    sourcegraph-resource-requires: no-cluster-admin
-    app.kubernetes.io/component: symbols
-  name: symbols
-spec:
-  ports:
-  - name: http
-    port: 3184
-    targetPort: http
-  - name: debug
-    port: 6060
-    targetPort: debug
-  selector:
-    app: symbols
-  type: ClusterIP
diff --git a/overlays/bases/deployments/kustomization.yaml b/overlays/bases/deployments/kustomization.yaml
index ca01c51ac117..e7682d271fe2 100644
--- a/overlays/bases/deployments/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/overlays/bases/deployments/kustomization.yaml
@@ -22,8 +22,6 @@ resources:
 - base/grafana/grafana.ServiceAccount.yaml
 - base/syntect-server/syntect-server.Service.yaml
 - base/syntect-server/syntect-server.Deployment.yaml
-- base/symbols/symbols.Service.yaml
-- base/symbols/symbols.Deployment.yaml
 - base/pgsql/pgsql.ConfigMap.yaml
 - base/pgsql/pgsql.Service.yaml
 - base/pgsql/pgsql.Deployment.yaml
diff --git a/overlays/low-resource/kustomization.yaml b/overlays/low-resource/kustomization.yaml
index 0da3601831cb..7d6c27727be2 100644
--- a/overlays/low-resource/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/overlays/low-resource/kustomization.yaml
@@ -74,12 +74,6 @@ patches:
     group: apps
     version: v1
   path: delete-resources.yaml
-- target:
-    kind: Deployment
-    name: symbols
-    group: apps
-    version: v1
-  path: delete-resources.yaml
 - target:
     kind: Deployment
     name: syntect-server
diff --git a/overlays/minikube/kustomization.yaml b/overlays/minikube/kustomization.yaml
index 38a7050991c0..5f001437d40f 100644
--- a/overlays/minikube/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/overlays/minikube/kustomization.yaml
@@ -74,12 +74,6 @@ patches:
       group: apps
       version: v1
     path: delete-resources.yaml
-  - target:
-      kind: Deployment
-      name: symbols
-      group: apps
-      version: v1
-    path: delete-resources.yaml
   - target:
       kind: Deployment
       name: syntect-server
diff --git a/overlays/non-privileged/kustomization.yaml b/overlays/non-privileged/kustomization.yaml
index a5c1962889cf..39348a1ef0c5 100644
--- a/overlays/non-privileged/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/overlays/non-privileged/kustomization.yaml
@@ -22,5 +22,4 @@ patchesStrategicMerge:
   - redis/redis-store.Deployment.yaml
   - worker/worker.Deployment.yaml
   - searcher/searcher.Deployment.yaml
-  - symbols/symbols.Deployment.yaml
   - syntect-server/syntect-server.Deployment.yaml
diff --git a/overlays/non-privileged/symbols/symbols.Deployment.yaml b/overlays/non-privileged/symbols/symbols.Deployment.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index d66dc7f19838..000000000000
--- a/overlays/non-privileged/symbols/symbols.Deployment.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-apiVersion: apps/v1
-kind: Deployment
-metadata:
-  name: symbols
-spec:
-  template:
-    spec:
-      containers:
-      - name: symbols
-        securityContext:
-          # Required to prevent escalations to root.
-          allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
-          runAsUser: 100
-          runAsGroup: 101
diff --git a/overlays/resources-update/resources.yaml b/overlays/resources-update/resources.yaml
index 6a0997e963d0..51581e0f8b2d 100644
--- a/overlays/resources-update/resources.yaml
+++ b/overlays/resources-update/resources.yaml
@@ -327,26 +327,6 @@ metadata:
 ---
 apiVersion: apps/v1
 kind: Deployment
-metadata:
-  name: symbols
-# spec:
-#   replicas: 1
-#   template:
-#     spec:
-#       containers:
-#       - name: symbols
-#         resources:
-#           limits:
-#             cpu: "2"
-#             ephemeral-storage: "12G"
-#             memory: 2G
-#           requests:
-#             cpu: 500m
-#             ephemeral-storage: "10G"
-#             memory: 500M
----
-apiVersion: apps/v1
-kind: Deployment
 metadata:
   name: syntect-server
 # spec: