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

At Medtronic Patient Care Systems (PCS), we power the digital heartbeat behind life-saving cardiac therapies. We build the connected ecosystem that enables clinicians to monitor, manage, and protect millions of patients living with implantable cardiac devices around the world.

From secure device connectivity and real-time data platforms to intelligent clinical tools and patient-facing experiences, PCS transforms complex cardiac data into clarity — helping physicians make faster decisions, improving outcomes, and giving patients greater confidence in their care.

Every line of code we write supports someone’s parent, spouse, child, or friend. Our work ensures that life-saving therapies are not only delivered safely and reliably, but continuously improved through innovation, insight, and global scale.

If you want to build technology that truly matters — where uptime means peace of mind and innovation means more birthdays — join us. Together, we are shaping the future of connected cardiac care and changing lives every single day

Come for a job, stay for a career!

A Day in The Life Of:

Responsibilities for the Principal Software engineer role includes, but is not limited to the following:

• Lead the design, coding, testing of ingestion pipelines in the development and extension of the data platform leveraging cloud-native, serverless technologies.
• Follow/extend existing CI/CD patterns in following our IaC architecture tenet.
• Understand end-user access requirements, and use these insights in the design of user-facing structures.
• Establish intimate understanding of our data and influence the semantic understanding of our data by extending our data catalogue.
• Setup proactive monitoring and alerting leveraging cloud-native capabilities.
• Design and implement automation to enable a self-service model for data engineers.
• Troubleshoot production issues and lead efforts to reestablish services
• Use metrics to provide guidance on reducing costs and improving service.
• Work with IT and business partners to identify opportunities to improve existing processes
• Mentor and guide junior engineers
• Team Leadership experience

Key Skills & Experience

REQUIRED

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field.
• Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with 5 years of experience
• Data Architecture knowledge, including ERD, Primary Key/Foreign Key definition and access strategies leveraging standard big-data capabilities.
• Data Engineering principles (batch, event-driven) and associated architecture and observability tenets
• AWS and AWS native tools (Glue, Lambda, EMR, Athena, Lake Formation, S3, SQS, SNS)
• AWS Observability (CloudWatch, Cost Analyzer)
• SQL (SQLServer , Trino)
• Apache Spark (Py Spark) and Iceberg
• Schema design and implementation (JSON/Avro)
• GitHub Actions
• Terraform
• Containerization of commonly-used modules (Python, Docker)
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Strong written and verbal communication & presentation skills
• Experience leveraging LLM’s in coding and testing.
• AWS certifications a plus

Medtronic offer a competitive salary and flexible Benefits Package 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.

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits PackageA 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.

Pay range / Rango salarial / Intervalo salarial /Fascia retributiva / Tranche de salaire / Gehaltsband / Salaribereik: Ireland: 78,320.00 EUR - 117,480.00 EUR |

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

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 95,000+ 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