Senior Software Engineer

Docusign • Seattle, WA

37d • Hybrid

About The Position

Microservices Framework (MSF) team within the Docusign Cloud Engineering organization helps build the platform that powers Product Development across a multi-cloud environment. MSF team enables microservices at scale through two core capabilities, Compute for containerized service execution and Storage for all services, while delivering end-to-end automation for provisioning and deployment. You’ll shape the Cloud Layer by defining cloud component configurations across providers, automating deployments, creating secure execution environments, managing users and permissions, and streamlining standardized onboarding. This team also owns the System Layer capabilities including system execution, data flow and routing, security and encryption, and reliable service-to-UI and service-to-service communication. If you thrive on solving complex distributed systems challenges, elevating developer experience, and making an outsized impact on reliability and scale, we’d love to hear from you.

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 Cloud engineering at Docusign ensures critical back-end services scale with the company’s continued rapid growth.
This position is an individual contributor role reporting to the Senior Director, Engineering.

Requirements

• 8+ years of hands-on software development experience in an object-oriented programming language such as C#, C++ or Java
• 5+ years of working with cloud deployment and configuration tools using scripting and configuration platforms like terraform
• Experience designing and implementing scalable storage systems
• Experience with being a part of oncall rotation
• Experience with driving decisions based on Telemetry and metrics to take a data driven approach.

Nice To Haves

• Passion to learn new software technologies and platforms
• Strong experience with Agile methodologies and working in an Agile/Scrum environment
• Passion for exploring new technologies and a proven track record as a self-starter with a strong sense of ownership
• Experience in a SaaS environment, with practical knowledge of Cloud technologies like Kubernetes, Azure/GCP, and large-scale microservice architectures
• Proficiency in the entire software development lifecycle, including version control (Git), CI/CD pipelines, testing, and regional cloud deployments
• Have an interest in working on a highly available site

Responsibilities

• Be open minded, forward thinking and passionate about great software platform and cloud technologies
• Think about how to solve problems in 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 requirements and provide estimates for development
• Work as part of a cross-site development team to drive design, implementation, testing and release of microservices platform
• Architect and evolve the Microservices Framework (MSF) platform across multiple cloud providers, defining reference architectures, guardrails, and best practices for containerized microservices and storage platforms
• Lead design and implementation of the compute runtime (e.g., container orchestration, scheduling, autoscaling) and underlying networking to deliver highly reliable, low‑latency service execution
• Design and integrate storage solutions (databases, object stores, queues/streams) with clear patterns for replication, backup/restore, data routing, governance, and encryption in transit/at rest
• Build and maintain end‑to-end automation for provisioning and deployments using infrastructure‑as‑code and CI/CD pipelines
• Mentor and coach engineers, perform design and code reviews, and lead cross‑team initiatives that raise the technical bar and platform reliability

Benefits

• 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).
• 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 reimbursements
• Compassionate Care Leave: paid time off following the loss of a loved one and other life-changing events

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed