Lead 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).

What you'll do

Docusign is looking for a seasoned Software Engineer to join our Microservices Framework team, focused on building highly scalable, available, and reliable distributed systems. The team ensures critical back-end services scale with the company’s continued rapid growth. We hire people with a broad set of skills and people who want to work on creating never-been-done-before solutions at scale while ensuring world-class reliability and security. We embrace Agile principles and values, favor DevOps practices, and view infrastructure as code, all while we create an infrastructure that scales and supports our growth and ambitious vision. This requires a smart, highly collaborative team who can identify, investigate, and implement new technologies to continue securely scaling our global business. You will be responsible for designing high-performance, resilient architectures, developing microservices frameworks, and evolving our cutting-edge service mesh that powers Docusign’s cloud infrastructure.

 

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

 

Responsibility

• Think about how to solve problems at scale and build automation to manage complex software systems

• Develop testable, high-quality, and ship-ready code with ample test coverage

• Work with Product Management and other developers to understand and translate engineering requirements into design and architectural solutions

• Work as part of a cross-site development team to drive design, implementation, testing, and release of microservices platforms

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate builds, testing, and deployments

• Manage infrastructure as code using Terraform to deploy and maintain cloud environments

• Implement best practices for cloud security, performance, and cost optimization

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define technical architecture and cloud strategies

• Participate in on-call rotations and contribute to improving system reliability and incident response

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

• 12+ years of hands-on software development experience in an object-oriented programming language such as C#, C++, or Java
• 8+ years of working with cloud deployment and configuration tools using scripting and configuration platforms
• Experience with Service Mesh technologies such as Istio, Linkerd, or Consul
• Experience with system architecture, API design, and distributed systems
• Passion for leveraging cutting-edge tools to solve real-world problems

Preferred

• Proficiency in managing infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform
• Experience designing, deploying, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines to automate application builds, tests, and deployments
• Experience with being part of an on-call rotation

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:

 

California: $171,500.00 - $277,025.00 base salary

 

This role is also eligible for the following:

• Bonus: Sales personnel are eligible for variable incentive pay dependent on their achievement of pre-established sales goals. Non-Sales roles