Software Engineer

Docusign • Seattle, WA

15d • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Software Engineer on Docusign’s Storage and Data Pipeline Infrastructure team, you will help build systems that ingest, process, store, and serve data for Docusign products and internal engineering teams. You will contribute to reliable, scalable infrastructure across cloud storage, distributed processing, data pipelines, and service integrations. With guidance from senior engineers, you will develop well-defined features and components, strengthen your software engineering practices, and grow your ability to own work across the development lifecycle. This role suits an engineer who enjoys infrastructure problems, learning new technologies, and collaborating across teams. It is an individual contributor position reporting to the Sr. Manager, Engineering.

The position is hybrid, requiring access to an office location and a minimum of two in-office days per week, with weekly expectations that may vary by team. The role’s job designation may change depending on business needs and applicable local law.

Applicants must already be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time, permanent basis without current or future visa sponsorship. The position is not eligible for employment in Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, or Wyoming.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of professional software development experience with a bachelor’s or master’s degree.
• Experience developing and maintaining production software in at least one modern programming language.
• Experience with software development fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, testing, version control, and debugging.
• Experience working with relational or non-relational data stores.
• Experience collaborating with engineering teams in an iterative development environment.
• Must already be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time, permanent basis without current or future sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with cloud storage or data processing platforms such as Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Databricks, Apache Spark, Delta Lake, or Azure Data Factory.
• Experience building batch, streaming, or incremental data pipelines.
• Experience with Python, Java, Scala, C#, or SQL.
• Experience with distributed systems, microservices, service-to-service authentication, or managed identities.
• Experience with schema evolution, data quality checks, deduplication, checkpointing, retries, or backfills.
• Experience with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability, and production operations.
• Knowledge of data privacy, access control, retention, deletion, or data residency requirements.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, and maintain software components for storage and data pipeline infrastructure.
• Build reusable ingestion and processing capabilities for data from multiple source systems and storage technologies.
• Develop batch and incremental pipeline workflows that move data through raw, normalized, and curated storage layers.
• Implement data validation, schema handling, deduplication, checkpointing, retry, and error-handling mechanisms.
• Write production-quality code with unit, integration, and operational testing.
• Contribute to cloud infrastructure, deployment automation, configuration, and CI/CD workflows.
• Add telemetry, dashboards, alerts, and runbooks to monitor pipeline health, data freshness, latency, and failures.
• Participate in design reviews and provide estimates for assigned features and tasks.
• Investigate defects and production issues, identify root causes, and implement durable fixes.
• Collaborate with software engineers, data engineers, product managers, security partners, and platform teams.
• Apply secure access patterns, tenant isolation, data retention, and privacy requirements to infrastructure and data workflows.
• Document technical decisions, operational procedures, and service interfaces.

Benefits

• Company bonus plan for non-sales roles, calculated as a percentage of eligible wages and dependent on company performance.
• Eligibility to receive Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
• Paid time off and paid company holidays based on region.
• Up to six months of paid parental leave after birth, adoption, or foster care placement.
• Health benefit plan options, including 100% employer-paid and minimum employee-contribution plans from day one of employment.
• Retirement and pension programs, with potential employer contributions.
• Learning and development options, including coaching, online courses, and education reimbursements.
• Paid compassionate care leave following the loss of a loved one and other life-changing events.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level