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).

What you'll do

We are looking for a passionate software engineer with experience in designing, implementing, and operating large scale distributed systems and excel at collaborating with partners. Ideally, you have a background in request tracing systems, time series telemetry platforms, application performance management tools or log management tools.

 

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

 

Responsibility

• Write high quality code that is easy to maintain and test

• Design and build platform components needed to power the observability stack

• Ensure design and architecture is extensible across projects, and participate in technical design and code reviews

• Work with Product Management, stakeholders and other developers to understand design requirements and provide estimates for development

• Stay current with the latest observability best practices and share your findings with the team

• Work as part of a cross-site development team

• Raise issues proactively that might impact delivery commitments

• Coach and mentor other team members with new technologies

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

• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent engineering experience

• 15+ years of relevant software development experience

• Experience with OOP/OOD principles, design patterns and data structures

• Experience in Java, C# or C++, object oriented design and programming skills

• Experience writing scalable web services

• Experience with state-of-the art development tools and techniques

Preferred

• Stream processing engines, such as Spark Streaming, Flink and Storm

• noSQL stores such as Cassandra, MongoDb and DocumentDb

• Commercial and/or open source technologies in the log management, distributed tracing and analytics domains e.g. LogStash, Splunk, Zipkin, New Relic etc

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): $202,100.00 - $299,625.00 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 are eligible for a company bonus plan, which is calculated as a percentage of eligible wages and dependent on company performance.
• Stock: This role is eligible to receive Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

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 re