- Robot type
- Warehouse and Logistics
- Location
- WilmingtonNorth CarolinaUSA
- Job type
- Software
- Posted
- Jul 14, 2026
- Salary
- $180,000–$247,500 a year
Full-time
Principal Software Engineer - Fleet Orchestration
Job description
We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or genetic information.
Symbotic is an automation technology leader reimagining the supply chain with its end-to-end, AI-powered robotic and software platform. Symbotic reinvents the warehouse as a strategic asset for the world’s largest retail, wholesale, and food & beverage companies.
We are a community of innovators, collaborators and pioneers who embrace our differences, because we know unique perspectives make us stronger and smarter. Every perspective matters.
Job 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.
- Diagnose and resolve complex, cross-system production issues.
- Mentor engineers, provide technical guidance, and elevate engineering quality across the team.
- Partner with cross-functional teams (robotics, controls, infrastructure, product) to deliver integrated solutions.
Job requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
- Minimum of 12 years of professional software development experience.
- Strong experience designing and building 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.