Software Engineer Intern

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

As a Back-End Engineering Intern, you will help build and improve platform capabilities and engineering tools that support both on‑premises and cloud environments. Projects may include implementing data retrieval pipelines, enhancing CI/CD automation, strengthening monitoring and logging, and developing environment support tooling that accelerates incident resolution. You’ll collaborate with experienced engineers to design, implement, test, and document reliable services and workflows, gaining exposure to real production systems and best practices. This role offers hands-on experience with the technologies and processes that keep modern platforms healthy, scalable, and secure.

 

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

 

Responsibility

• Contribute to the enhancement of CI/CD automation and environment support tooling, such as implementing a CI/CD pipeline for blob management
• Develop tools to improve system observability, including building monitoring dashboards (e.g., in Kazmon) to track the health of components owned by the CLM Accounts team
• Assist in enhancing critical engineering tools like PSOTool, including adding functionality for on-demand SQL/Cassandra queries and enabling task resubmission to CLM queues
• Collaborate with experienced engineers on code reviews, design documentation, and production system best practices
• Participate actively in the team’s Agile sprint cadence, including planning, development, testing, and demonstrating progress

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

• Currently pursuing a bachelors degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering
• Will be graduating from bachelors program by December 2025 or May 2026
• Experience with CI/CD concepts and tooling
• Experience with version control (e.g., Git) and collaborative software development workflows
• Experience with SQL and familiarity with NoSQL databases

Preferred

• Foundational understanding of back-end development concepts (services, APIs, data flows)
• Understanding of log management, metrics, and monitoring fundamentals
• Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and clear communication
• Willingness to learn, take feedback, and iterate quickly

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, Maryland, New Jersey and New York (including NYC metro area): $38/hour - $45/hour

 

Work Authorization Notice: Please note that we do not provide visa sponsorship or immigration support for this position. Applicants must already be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time, permanent basis without the need for current or future sponsorship.

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