Principal Software Engineer

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).

As a Principal Engineer you will spearhead the architecture and development of a highly scalable, reliable piece of our core offering. You will cover API and backend components of IAM Services, Ingestion and Integration with other Docusign product offerings such as Maestro, Agreement Preparation and AI Extractions.

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

• Architect, implement and maintain some of Docusign’s highest scale services
• Write high quality code that is easy to maintain and test
• Work with world class telemetry systems to work through complex problems and solve them with data
• Guide and mentor other engineers through design and code reviews
• Revolutionize Docusign core services and API’s
• Think through how systems will scale and fail as they grow
• Take complicated problems and break them down in to bite sized pieces, then ship every few weeks to get there
• Work throughout the stack, from network protocols to database performance and back
• Ensure design and architecture is extensible across multiple projects, and participate in technical design and code reviews
• Work cooperatively with product management and design to create features that are scalable and secure identify, propose, and implement process improvements to continuously increase the team's productivity and efficiency
• Develop, promote and build consensus across engineering teams

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.

Basic

• 15+ years of product development experience building large scale web applications
• Experience with full stack development, in one or more of OO programming languages, such as C#, Java, C++
• Experience designing and developing highly scalable consumer facing web application
• Experience with consuming and building RESTful web‑services
• BS degree in Computer Science or relevant field of study

Preferred

• Knowledge and experience in high scale, highly available (99.99+) systems
• 15+ years professional experience building complex, scalable applications
• Excellent problem‑solving skills
• Experience in working in an agile development environment
• Experience with git, continuous integration and deployment tools
• Curiosity and ability to learn new technologies and tool sets
• Experience with Microsoft technology stack (.NET, C#, SQL Server, etc.)
• SaaS or Cloud experience
• Prior experience aligning platform architecture with security and data
• Experience with unit testing frameworks

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, Maryland, New Jersey and New York (including NYC metro area): $ – $ base salary

This role is also eligible for the following:

• Bonus:
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