Senior Platform Engineer, Real-Time Lift Systems

Symbotic; Wilmington (MA); On-site; USD 149,000 - 204,600; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel up to 10%

Expense reimbursement via company card

Job summary

Symbotic in Wilmington, MA—HQ is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and evolve core platform services that orchestrate vertical lift systems. You will own subsystems end-to-end, drive improvements, and contribute to system design across robotics, controls, and infrastructure teams.

The role involves real‑time, event‑driven processing and optimizing flows for throughput and reliability, with a strong emphasis on ownership and impact.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong C# / .NET skills or ability to ramp quickly.
• Strong system design, concurrency, and debugging skills.
• Experience building production systems.
• Experience with complex or distributed systems.
• Experience with hardware-adjacent systems (robotics, automation, etc.).
• Comfort with algorithms or optimization problems (preferred).
• Proven ownership and ability to drive results.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate core services for vertical lift systems and shared platform components.
• Own high-impact subsystems end-to-end from design through production.
• Proactively identify issues and drive improvements without being asked.
• Improve reliability, scalability, and throughput in production.
• Build event-driven and real-time processing systems.
• Apply algorithmic thinking to optimize flows, performance, and system behavior.
• Debug and resolve complex cross-system issues.
• Partner across robotics, controls, and infrastructure teams.
• Contribute to system design and architecture.
• Mentor engineers and raise engineering quality.

Skills

C# / .NET

System design

Concurrency

Debugging

Production systems

Distributed systems

Hardware-adjacent systems

Job description

Symbotic in Wilmington, MA—HQ is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and evolve core platform services that orchestrate vertical lift systems. You will own subsystems end-to-end, drive improvements, and contribute to system design across robotics, controls, and infrastructure teams.

The role involves real‑time, event‑driven processing and optimizing flows for throughput and reliability, with a strong emphasis on ownership and impact.