Principal Software Engineer - Real-Time Fleet Orchestration

Symbotic; Wilmington (MA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 247,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel up to 10%

Competitive benefits package

Job summary

Symbotic in Wilmington, MA, is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead the Fleet Orchestration team. You will own end-to-end delivery of major features, shape architecture for scalable systems, and mentor engineers while remaining hands-on.

You will drive event-driven processing and real-time capabilities, collaborating with robotics and infrastructure teams to deliver integrated solutions. Strong system design and debugging skills are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Minimum of 12 years of professional software development experience.
• Strong experience designing distributed systems at scale.
• Deep knowledge of system design, concurrency, and performance optimization.
• Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.).
• Proven ability to lead technical initiatives and influence system design.
• Strong debugging skills across complex, multi‑service environments.

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.
• Mentor engineers, provide technical guidance, and elevate engineering quality across the team.

Skills

Distributed systems

Event-driven architectures

System design

Concurrency

Performance optimization

Leadership

Mentoring

Debugging complex systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Job description

Symbotic in Wilmington, MA, is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead the Fleet Orchestration team. You will own end-to-end delivery of major features, shape architecture for scalable systems, and mentor engineers while remaining hands-on.

You will drive event-driven processing and real-time capabilities, collaborating with robotics and infrastructure teams to deliver integrated solutions. Strong system design and debugging skills are required.