Principal SE, Fleet Orchestration & Real-Time Systems

Exol; Wilmington (MA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 248,000; Full time

Job summary

Symbotic is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead the Fleet Orchestration team. You will own major components, drive architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and remain hands-on while delivering high-impact distributed systems.

The role requires 12+ years of experience, expertise in event-driven architectures, and collaboration across robotics, controls, and infrastructure teams. Hybrid work with travel may be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Experience designing distributed systems at scale.
• Strong knowledge of system design, concurrency and performance optimization.
• Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of large-scale distributed systems and services.
• Own end-to-end delivery of major features or subsystems from design through production.
• Drive architectural decisions around scalability, resiliency, and system correctness.
• Develop and evolve event-driven, real-time processing systems.
• Analyze and improve system behavior using metrics, observability, and performance profiling.
• Diagnose and resolve complex, cross-system production issues.
• Mentor engineers, provide technical guidance, and elevate engineering quality across the team.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver integrated solutions.
• Contribute to technical strategy and roadmap planning.

Skills

Distributed systems

Leadership

Architecture design

Mentoring

Performance tuning

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Job description

Symbotic is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead the Fleet Orchestration team. You will own major components, drive architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and remain hands-on while delivering high-impact distributed systems.

The role requires 12+ years of experience, expertise in event-driven architectures, and collaboration across robotics, controls, and infrastructure teams. Hybrid work with travel may be required.