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

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

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

Responsibility

• 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 that help teams 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

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

• 3+ years of professional software development experience with a Bachelor's degree or a 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

Preferred

• 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

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): $111,900.00 - $162,250.00 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 reimbursements

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

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 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.

Accommodation

Docusign is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures.

 States Not Eligible for Employment

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

EEO Statement

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.