Principal Engineer, loT & Device Messaging

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.

Learn more about our solutions at www.capsahealthcare.com .

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:

Deep .NET / C# Distributed Systems Expertise

Expert-level C# and .NET

Async programming

Performance tuning

Microservices architecture

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

Handling intermittent connectivity

Messaging, Guaranteed Delivery & Reliability Architecture

gRPC

MQTT

At-least-once delivery

Idempotency

Deduplication

Transactional outbox

Retry logic

Dead-letter queues

Partitioning and ordering

Reconciliation

Kubernetes, SaaS Platform Architecture & Operations

Multi-tenant SaaS

Containers

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

OpenTelemetry

SLOs/Observability

Security for Connected Devices and Distributed Systems

Device identity

Certificate authentication

Mutual TLS

OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect

Service-to-service authorization

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

Join Us in Engineering Better Care. If you're excited about using your engineering expertise to create innovative technologies that support healthcare professionals and improve patient outcomes, we invite you to apply and help us shape the future of healthcare.

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