Senior Software Engineer

Exol•Wilmington, MA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Symbotic is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join its Software Engineering organization. This role involves leading the design and delivery of complex, high-impact systems crucial for the platform's performance and reliability. The engineer will act as a technical leader within their team, owning major components, driving architectural decisions, and mentoring others while remaining hands-on. Symbotic's core platform powers real-time orchestration, robotics coordination, system intelligence, and operational visibility across their automation solutions, tackling problems in distributed systems, physical automation, large-scale data processing, and real-world system behavior.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
Minimum of 8 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.

Nice To Haves

Experience with robotics, warehouse automation, or hardware-adjacent systems.
Background in real-time control systems or orchestration platforms.
Experience with simulation, optimization, or algorithm-heavy systems.
Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and reliability engineering practices.

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.
Contribute to technical strategy and roadmap planning.