Staff Software Engineer: Algorithms & Distributed Systems

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) plan

PTO

Job summary

Symbotic in Wilmington, MA is seeking a Staff Software Engineer - Algorithms to join our Software Engineering organization. You will design and implement real-time distributed software to optimize automation, fulfillment, and material-flow systems, tackling NP-Hard problems with combinatorial optimization and graph-based algorithms.

You will influence architecture, scale, and performance while delivering robust microservice‑driven solutions using .Net Core, RabbitMQ, OpenAPI, and Kubernetes;

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum of 8 years of professional software development experience using C# and .NET.
• Strong expertise in Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), SOLID principles, and design patterns.
• Deep understanding of algorithms, data structures, and computational complexity analysis.
• Proven experience designing scalable, fault-tolerant, and distributed systems.
• Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and performance-tuning skills.
• Experience with relational databases and SQL optimization.
• Hands‑on problem solver with excellent software design and implementation skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop real-time distributed software for Automation systems.
• Design software systems which are highly available & widely scalable.
• Research, develop, and productize solutions for NP-Hard optimization problems using combinatorial optimization or other algorithms.
• Demonstrate passion about building high quality software, love solving problems and facing new challenges.
• Analyze a system of distributed software components using performance, profiling, and debugging tools.
• Be a proactive communicator who enjoys working closely with creative and technical peers.
• Work in a dynamic Agile/Scrum based environment.
• Have opportunities to travel to customer sites.
• Develop software application using microservice oriented architecture using technologies like .Net Core, Rabbit MQ, Open API and Kubernetes

Skills

C# & .NET

OOP & design patterns

Algorithms & data structures

Distributed systems

Debugging & performance

Asynchronous/multithread

Unit tests & test automation

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/SE

Tools

Git

SQL

Windows

Linux

Kubernetes

RabbitMQ

OpenAPI

SQL Server/PL/SQL

Job description

Symbotic in Wilmington, MA is seeking a Staff Software Engineer - Algorithms to join our Software Engineering organization. You will design and implement real-time distributed software to optimize automation, fulfillment, and material-flow systems, tackling NP-Hard problems with combinatorial optimization and graph-based algorithms.

You will influence architecture, scale, and performance while delivering robust microservice‑driven solutions using .Net Core, RabbitMQ, OpenAPI, and Kubernetes;