Principal Engineer, loT & Device Messaging

Capsa Healthcare; Canal Winchester (OH); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Paid time off

Health insurance

401(k) with company match

Life, AD&D, and disability insurance

Parental leave

Job summary

Capsa Healthcare seeks a Principal Engineer, loT & Device Messaging, 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.

Ideal candidate has deep IoT and distributed systems expertise, 12+ years in software engineering, and 5+ years building real-time, high-throughput platforms. Salary range reflects senior leadership and impact.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture that connects pharmacy software with conveyors, PCLs, vision systems, divertors, and label printers.
• Own IoT and distributed system architecture with 50% travel as a remote role.
• Ensure reliability, scalability, and secure device communication across the stack.

Skills

C# & .NET

Performance tuning

IoT platform experience

Messaging architecture

Kubernetes

Security for distributed systems

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field

Master’s degree is a plus

Tools

gRPC

MQTT

OpenTelemetry

CI/CD

Job description

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Principal Engineer, loT & Device Messaging

Active - Exempt full-time Full time Canal Winchester, OH, US

10 days ago Requisition ID: 1507

Salary Range: $140,000.00 To $190,000.00 Annually

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.

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:

• Expert-level C# and .NET
• Performance tuning

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

Messaging, Guaranteed Delivery & Reliability Architecture

• gRPC
• MQTT
• Idempotency
• Transactional outbox
• Retry logic
• Partitioning and ordering

Kubernetes, SaaS Platform Architecture & Operations

• Containers
• Infrastructure as Code
• CI/CD
• OpenTelemetry
• SLOs/Observability

Security for Connected Devices and Distributed Systems

• Device identity
• Mutual TLS
• OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect
• 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