Principal Engineer, loT & Device Messaging
Capsa Solutions· enterprise· Medical Devices· Sep 23, 2026 · 1mo ago
Canal Winchester, OH, US
In office
Full-time
Principal
$140K–$190K
12+ years exp
Job description
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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401(K)
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