Senior Principal Engineer - Platform
Engineering & Tech Operations | Seattle, WA or San Francisco, CA

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

Our agreement with employees
DocuSign is committed to building trust and making the world more agree-able 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.

The team
Our Engineering & Tech Operations team builds and operates complex solutions for global business challenges that cross cultures, legal jurisdictions, and impacts millions of people and businesses every day. 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. Our Agreement Cloud is a revolutionary solution that changes the way people live, work, and come to agreement.

This position
We are seeking a hands-on Senior Principal Engineer to drive critical projects and help define the next-generation architecture for our applications and services. This individual will be working on the Platform Engineering team that builds and operates most of the commonalities between all of DocuSign’s applications including AuthN, AuthZ, Notifications, Provisioning, Signup, Settings/Entitlements, Admin, Configuration, and our UX Platform. They will be responsible to help drive innovation across our product suite, set technical direction and impact all our products and the underlying technologies.

This position is an individual contributor role reporting to the Senior Director, Engineering and is designated Flex.

Responsibilities

• Lead key strategic engineering projects across our product suite via hands on contributions to architecture and code
• Design and develop internet scale systems
• Mentor teams of engineers delivering new product / platform capabilities or engineering POCs
  

Basic qualifications

• 15+ years industry experience in Software Engineering
• 10+ years building resilient platforms, software as a service, architecture and integrations
• 5+ years of Experience Serving as a Technical Lead or Manager
• Experience developing, promoting and building consensus around architecture for product and platform teams.
• Demonstrated ability to document architectural standards and decisions
  

Preferred qualifications

• C++, C# and .Net experience
• BS/MS/Ph.D. in Computer Science, preferred
• Prior experience aligning platform architecture with security, data
• Demonstrated ability to document architectural standards and decisions
  SaaS or high scale cloud experience

Vaccination requirement
DocuSign may require all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and provide proof of vaccination to visit a DocuSign office, to meet with potential or actual customers or business partners, or for other business-related purposes, in accordance with local law. Please note that DocuSign has contracts with different governments globally which may require compliance with local and federal laws.

About us
DocuSign helps organizations connect and automate how they prepare, sign, act on and manage agreements. As part of the DocuSign Agreement Cloud, DocuSign offers eSignature, the world's #1 way to sign electronically on practically any device, from almost anywhere, at any time. Today, over a million customers and more than a billion users in over 180 countries use the DocuSign Agreement Cloud to accelerate the process of doing business and simplify people's lives. And we help save the world’s forests and embrace environmental sustainability.

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.

Accommodations
DocuSign provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in job application procedures, including if you have any difficulty using our online system. If you need such an accommodation, you may contact us at accommodations@docusign.com.

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