We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 13 Dec 2024

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You'll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life
Medtronic is growing and seeks a Principal Software Engineer - Full Stack to help define and build the future of our image guided surgery and robotics portfolio of products.
Medtronic is growing and seeks a Principal Software Engineer - Full Stack to help define and build the future of our image guided surgery and robotics portfolio of products.

You will be a great fit for this Principal Software Engineer role if you:

• want to use your technical skills to impact real people every day - Medtronic products are used worldwide to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life


• want technical ownership over your work and enjoy being involved in the entire software lifecycle (concept to landing)


• love working cross functionally with product, security, quality, regulatory, testing, and more while building real products


• have a track record of successfully building and landing modern cloud-based software using React, Typescript, Python, AWS, Docker, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, etc.


• enjoy mentoring others through code reviews and jam sessions that are thoughtful and encourage defensive-coding patterns, best practices, and practical tradeoff decisions


• value scalable, available, maintainable, testable, observable cloud software


• execute independently and are comfortable digging deep into a variety of technical areas to provide technical leadership and architectural suggestions are a strong communicator, able to discuss technical topics with anyone from engineers through stakeholders


• hold a bachelor's degree in computer science or a related engineering discipline and 7+ years of experience (or 5+ years and an advanced degree) building enterprise cloud software


• have project management skills, including planning, estimation, and requirements management.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Designs, develops, tests, debugs and implements operating systems components, software tools and utilities.


• Determines systems software design requirements.


• Ensures that system improvements are successfully implemented and monitored to increase efficiency.


• Generates systems software engineering policies, standards and procedures.


• May work across a variety of software lifecycle activities as determined by program needs.

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$140,800.00 - $211,200.00

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission - to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life - unites a global team of 90,000+ passionate people.
We are engineers at heart- putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here .

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.