Principal Engineer, IoT & Device Messaging

Capsa Healthcare

. Lead the architecture connecting pharmacy software with conveyors, PLCs, vision systems, divertors, and label printers .

Posted 9/23/2026full-timeRemote • Ohio • United StatesLead💰 $140,000 - $190,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in architecting and operating multi-tenant SaaS platforms, including IoT and distributed systems for pharmacy automation. Proficient in implementing reliability patterns and security controls for connected devices, with a strong focus on performance tuning and real-time system design.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Deep .NET / C# Distributed Systems ExpertiseMicroservices ArchitectureKubernetesIoT / Connected Device Platform ExperienceSaaS Platform Architecture and Operations

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Hard Skills

.NETC#Async ProgrammingPerformance TuningGRPCMQTTIdempotencyDeduplicationTransactional OutboxRetry Logic

Tools & Technologies

KubernetesContainersInfrastructure as CodeCI/CDOpenTelemetry

Industry Keywords

Pharmacy AutomationDevice IdentityProvisioningTelemetry PipelinesOTA ConfigurationFleet ManagementMulti-Tenant SaaSSecurity ControlsThreat ModelingService-to-Service Authorization

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsGRPCIoTKubernetesMicroservices.NET

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the architecture connecting pharmacy software with conveyors, PLCs, vision systems, divertors, and label printers
Architect IoT and distributed systems for pharmacy automation
Design and support connected-device platforms, including device identity, provisioning, twins/shadow state, fleet management, telemetry, and OTA updates
Design reliable messaging and guaranteed-delivery systems using gRPC and MQTT
Implement reliability patterns including idempotency, deduplication, transactional outbox, retries, dead-letter queues, partitioning, ordering, and reconciliation
Architect and operate multi-tenant SaaS platforms using containers, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and observability tooling
Apply security controls for connected devices and distributed systems
Report to the Senior Director of Enterprise Architecture
Travel 50%

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field required
Master's degree is a plus
12+ years software engineering experience
5+ years building distributed, real-time, or high-throughput systems
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
gRPC
MQTT
At-least-once delivery
Idempotency
Deduplication
Transactional outbox
Retry logic
Dead-letter queues
Partitioning and ordering
Reconciliation
Kubernetes
SaaS platform architecture and operations
Containers
Infrastructure as Code
CI/CD
OpenTelemetry
SLOs/observability
Device identity and certificate authentication
Mutual TLS
OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect
Service-to-service authorization
MQTT access control
Secrets management
Threat modeling
Ability to work remotely and travel 50%

Benefits

Comp & perks

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
Remote work arrangement
Work-life balance
Continuous improvement opportunities