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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Principal Software Engineer, Manufacturing Systems - **Company:** Neros Technologies - **Location:** Torrance, CA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $154,500.0 - $216,500.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Audit Trail, Business Systems, Data Governance, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Serialization, Routing, Operational Data Store, Queueing Systems, Role-Based Access Control, Release Management, Software Construction, Software Engineering, Systems Integration, Enterprise Software Applications, Warehouse Management Systems, Backend, Event Driven Architecture, Build Management, Integration Frameworks, Software Coding, Software Usability - **Published:** July 11, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=348b34a62d3139b8 ## About the Role * 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant backend, platform, internal tools, systems, or infrastructure work * Experience designing, building, and shipping production software in ambiguous or fast-changing environments * Strong hands-on coding ability and recent experience contributing to production systems * Experience designing APIs, data models, service boundaries, integration patterns, and reliable system-to-system workflows * Strong judgment around build-vs-buy decisions, technical tradeoffs, and long-term system maintainability * Experience working with cross-functional stakeholders outside engineering, including operations, manufacturing, warehouse, supply chain, quality, finance, or business systems teams * Ability to reason about permissions, auditability, traceability, genealogy, data ownership, error handling, observability, and supportability * Ability to operate as the first senior technical leader in a new function: hands-on, practical, and comfortable without a large team around them * Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain technical decisions clearly to non-technical stakeholders * Ability to work onsite with operational teams and support a fast-moving manufacturing environment Nice to have * Experience with MES, manufacturing execution, shop-floor systems, QMS, WMS, ERP, CRM, or enterprise integrations * Experience in hardware, aerospace, defense, robotics, drones, logistics, electronics, or high-volume manufacturing environments * Experience with serialization, genealogy, traceability, routing, work orders, rework, material consumption, barcode scanning, or warehouse/manufacturing workflows * Experience with workflow systems, audit trails, RBAC, event-driven systems, message queues, ETL/ELT, CDC, or integration platforms * Experience building software in compliance-sensitive, audit-heavy, or regulated environments * Experience leading or mentoring engineers without needing to move fully into people management ## Description * Own technical architecture for internal manufacturing systems, MES workflows, integrations, and enterprise system boundaries * Design and build production software for factory execution, including work orders, routing, material issue/consume, completion, serialization, genealogy, rework, and exception handling * Define system boundaries across ERP, MES, QMS, CRM, internal applications, integrations, and operational data services * Establish engineering standards for APIs, data models, permissions, audibility, observability, testing, release management, and operational reliability * Build integration patterns that are reliable, supportable, and resilient to future system changes * Partner directly with factory, quality, supply chain, warehouse, finance, and business systems stakeholders to translate operational complexity into simple, usable software * Mentor future engineering hires and help shape the technical culture of the Manufacturing Systems team ## Related Videos - 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