Principal Software Engineer

Title: Principal Software Engineer

Location: Seattle United States

Job Description:

Company Overview

Docusign brings agreements to life. Over 1.5 million customers and more than a billion people in over 180 countries use Docusign solutions to accelerate the process of doing business and simplify people's lives. With intelligent agreement management, Docusign unleashes business-critical data that is trapped inside of documents. Until now, these were disconnected from business systems of record, costing businesses time, money, and opportunity. Using Docusign's Intelligent Agreement Management platform, companies can create, commit, and manage agreements with solutions created by the #1 company in e-signature and contract lifecycle management (CLM).

What you'll do

We are seeking a highly skilled Principal Software Engineer to join our Developer Platform and Infrastructure team, where you'll drive the development of scalable, robust platforms that empower engineers across our organization. In this role, you'll be responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing core infrastructure services that enhance developer productivity and accelerate our engineering processes. With a focus on reliability, security, and high performance, you'll work across engineering teams to architect and build solutions to meet the growing needs of our developers. If you're passionate about building tools and platforms that enable seamless and efficient software development (CI/CD, we'd love to hear from you. Join us in shaping the foundational systems that power our technology and drive innovation across the company.

This position is an individual contributor role reporting to the Director, Software Engineering.

Responsibility

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of scalable developer tools, platforms, and core infrastructure services, ensuring high availability and performance
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to architect solutions that enhance developer productivity and optimize the developer experience
• Define and implement best practices for infrastructure management, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment automation, enabling rapid and reliable delivery of applications
• Drive the technical strategy and roadmap for platform infrastructure, identifying opportunities for innovation and system improvement
• Mentor and guide engineers on the team, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing, technical excellence, and continuous learning
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize infrastructure systems, addressing performance bottlenecks, scalability challenges, and reliability concerns
• Advocate for DevOps principles, championing automation, resilience, and high-quality software delivery across the engineering organization
• Collaborate with security teams to ensure platform security and compliance, implementing best practices and addressing vulnerabilities proactively

Job Designation

Hybrid: Employee divides their time between in-office and remote work. Access to an office location is required. (Frequency: Minimum 2 days per week; may vary by team but will be weekly in-office expectation)

Positions at Docusign are assigned a job designation of either In Office, Hybrid or Remote and are specific to the role/job. Preferred job designations are not guaranteed when changing positions within Docusign. Docusign reserves the right to change a position's job designation depending on business needs and as permitted by local law.

What you bring

Basic

• 15+ years of professional experience in software engineering, with a strong background in both backend and frontend development
• Experience in programming languages such as C#, Java, Go, or similar, with experience in building developer tools and automation frameworks
• Experience in test-driven development techniques via nUnit, xUnit, MsTest and other unit testing frameworks
• Experience implementing DevOps practices and tools, including monitoring, logging, and alerting, with a focus on reliability and resilience
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions), containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible)
• Familiarity with security best practices and compliance standards for infrastructure and application deployment
• Ability to architect and implement robust, automated deployment workflows that integrate with CI/CD pipelines and support multiple environments

Preferred

• Extensive experience with deployment orchestration platforms
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot complex systems and collaborate effectively in a fast-paced environment
• Strong communication and mentoring abilities, with a track record of leading technical projects and guiding junior engineers
• Demonstrated ability to leverage telemetry data to drive insights, develop actionable improvements, and create innovative metrics that enhance system observability, performance monitoring, and proactive issue detection.
• Experience with on-call rotations, demonstrating the ability to effectively troubleshoot and resolve critical production issues under pressure, ensuring system stability and minimal downtime

Wage Transparency

Pay for this position is based on a number of factors including geographic location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Based on applicable legislation, the below details pay ranges in the following locations:

Washington and New York (including NYC metro area): $186,200.00 - $276,125.00 base salary

This role is also eligible for bonus, equity and benefits.

Global benefits provide options for the following:

• Paid Time Off: earned time off, as well as paid company holidays based on region
• Paid Parental Leave: take up to six months off with your child after birth, adoption or foster care placement
• Full Health Benefits Plans: options for 100% employer paid and minimum employee contribution health plans from day one of employment
• Retirement Plans: select retirement and pension programs with potential for employer contributions
• Learning and Development: options for coaching, online courses and education reimbursements
• Compassionate Care Leave: paid time off following the loss of a loved one and other life-changing events

Life at Docusign

Working here

Docusign is committed to building trust and making the world more agreeable for our employees, customers and the communities in which we live and work. You can count on us to listen, be honest, and try our best to do what's right, every day. At Docusign, everything is equal.

We each have a responsibility to ensure every team member has an equal opportunity to succeed, to be heard, to exchange ideas openly, to build lasting relationships, and to do the work of their life. Best of all, you will be able to feel deep pride in the work you do, because your contribution helps us make the world better than we found it. And for that, you'll be loved by us, our customers, and the world in which we live.

Accommodation

Docusign is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need such an accommodation, or a religious accommodation, during the application process, please contact us at accommodations@docusign.com.

If you experience any issues, concerns, or technical difficulties during the application process please get in touch with our Talent organization at taops@docusign.com for assistance.

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States Not Eligible for Employment

This position is not eligible for employment in the following states: Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming.

Equal Opportunity Employer

It's important to us that we build a talented team that is as diverse as our customers and where all employees feel a deep sense of belonging and thrive. We encourage great talent who bring a range of perspectives to apply for our open positions. Docusign is an Equal Opportunity Employer and makes hiring decisions based on experience, skill, aptitude and a can-do approach. We will not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, age, sex, religion, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, registered domestic partner status, caregiver status, marital status, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected category.

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