Principal Engineer, loT & Device Messaging

RiseMe; Canal Winchester (OH); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Paid parental leave

401(k) with company match

Life, AD&D, and long-term disability

Job summary

Capsa Healthcare is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead architecture connecting pharmacy software with conveyors, PCLs, vision systems, and label printers. This remote role requires 50% travel and reports to the Senior Director of Enterprise Architecture.

The ideal candidate has deep .NET/C# distributed systems expertise and strong IoT/connected device platform experience, plus a track record in Kubernetes and SaaS platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field required.
• 12+ years software engineering experience.
• 5+ years building distributed, real-time, or high-throughput systems.

Skills

Distributed systems

Async programming

Performance tuning

Microservices

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field

Master's degree a plus

Tools

gRPC

MQTT

Kubernetes

Containers

CI/CD

OpenTelemetry

Observability

Job description

At Capsa Healthcare, we're engineering better care.

We build what healthcare runs on. Our pharmacy automation teams build the counting, packaging and robotic dispensing systems, and the software behind them, that pharmacies rely on to fill prescriptions at every scale, from a single retail counter to high volume central fill and mail order operations. It is engineering you can walk through. Join us and see how we're engineering a path to better care.

Learn more about our solutions at www.capsahealthcare.com.

We are seeking a Principal Engineer with deep loT and distributed systems expertise to lead the architecture that connects pharmacy software with conveyors, PCLs, vision systems, divertors, and label printers.

This position reports to the Senior Director of Enterprise Architecture and is a REMOTE role requiring 50% travel.

Why Join Capsa?

When you join Capsa Healthcare, you're joining a team dedicated to innovation, collaboration, and meaningful impact. Your work will directly support caregivers, improve clinical workflows, and help healthcare organizations provide better patient outcomes.

We are a global organization that values work-life balance, continuous improvement, and empowering employees to do their best work. If you're looking for an opportunity to apply your expertise to technology that truly makes a difference, we'd love to hear from you.

As the Principal Engineer, you will need experience with the following:

Deep .NET / C# Distributed Systems Expertise

• Expert-level C# and .NET
• Async programming
• Performance tuning
• Microservices architecture

IoT / Connected Device Platform Experience

• Device identity and provisioning
• Device twins/shadow state
• Fleet management
• Telemetry pipelines
• OTA (over-the-air) configuration and firmware updates
• Handling intermittent connectivity

Messaging, Guaranteed Delivery & Reliability Architecture

• gRPC
• MQTT
• At-least-once delivery
• Idempotency
• Deduplication
• Transactional outbox
• Retry logic
• Dead-letter queues
• Partitioning and ordering
• Reconciliation

Kubernetes, SaaS Platform Architecture & Operations

• Multi-tenant SaaS
• Containers
• Kubernetes
• Infrastructure as Code
• CI/CD
• OpenTelemetry
• SLOs/Observability

Security for Connected Devices and Distributed Systems

• Device identity
• Certificate authentication
• Mutual TLS
• OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect
• Service-to-service authorization
• MQTT access control
• Secrets management
• Threat modeling

What We're Looking For

• A bachelor's degree in engineering or related field; master's degree is a plus
  
• 12+ years software engineering experience
• 5+ years building distributed, real-time, or high-throughput systems

What Capsa Offers

At Capsa Healthcare, we recognize that great people drive with great results. That's why we offer a competitive compensation and benefits package designed to support you professionally and personally, including:

• Competitive salary commensurate with experience
• Paid time off
• Paid holidays
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Paid parental leave
• 401(k) with company match
• Company-paid Life, AD&D, and Long-Term Disability insurance
• Voluntary Short-Term Disability, Supplemental Life, AD&D, Accidental Injury, and Hospital Indemnity insurance

EEO/Vet/Disabled