Sr. Software Engineer

Location: Seattle, Washington

Department: Engineering

Work Mode: Hybrid

About the Role

Docusign brings agreements to life, powering intelligent agreement management for over 1.5 million customers and a billion people across 180 countries. As a leader in e-signature and contract lifecycle management (CLM), we unleash business-critical data trapped in documents, accelerating business processes with innovative SaaS solutions. Join our Agreement Platform team as a Sr. Software Engineer to build the foundational tools and services for our next-generation platform, enabling seamless scaling for diverse customer needs in e-signature and CLM. In this individual contributor role reporting to the Sr. Manager, Engineering, you'll design and architect schema-driven microservices that multiple DocuSign product teams, partners, and customers rely on. You'll collaborate in an entrepreneurial, innovation-driven culture, brainstorming with product managers, developers, and platform engineers to solve complex challenges using cutting-edge .NET technologies. Hands-on ownership of features, performance, scale, security, and accessibility will ensure our platform handles billions of agreements with reliability and speed. Thrive in our agile, passionate team maintaining an open-source schema language and runtime. Model best practices by writing maintainable code, optimizing for performance, and driving process improvements. This hybrid role (minimum 2 days/week in-office) offers the chance to contribute to a world-class platform, fostering deep pride in making agreements simpler and the world more agreeable. Docusign is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity, belonging, and innovation.

Key Responsibilities

• Build foundational tools and services for DocuSign's next-generation Intelligent Agreement Management platform
• Design and architect scalable microservices used by multiple DocuSign product teams, partners, and customers
• Collaborate with partner teams to onboard them onto the schema-driven Agreement Platform
• Write accessible, maintainable, and testable code adhering to engineering best practices
• Participate in microservice architecture design and schema language/runtime maintenance
• Work with product managers and developers to elicit requirements and ensure timely, high-quality releases
• Address production issues related to features, performance, speed, scale, security, and accessibility
• Contribute to agile teams delivering innovative e-signature and CLM solutions
• Model engineering excellence by improving processes and team effectiveness
• Optimize services for handling billions of agreements across 180+ countries

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience
• Proficiency in C# or other modern programming languages with strong .NET expertise
• Experience designing and developing scalable cloud-based microservice components
• Hands-on experience building and consuming RESTful or gRPC web services
• Proven track record delivering high-quality SaaS products
• Familiarity with schema-driven architectures and data modeling
• Experience with the full software development lifecycle including CI/CD pipelines

Preferred Qualifications

• History of open-source contributions, particularly in schema languages or runtimes
• Expertise in Agile and Test-Driven Development (TDD) methodologies
• Experience in performance analysis, code optimization, and scalability engineering
• Strong communication skills in asynchronous, distributed team environments
• Passion for forward-thinking software innovation and entrepreneurial problem-solving

Required Skills

• C# and .NET proficiency
• Microservices architecture design
• RESTful and gRPC web services
• Cloud-native scalable development (e.g., AWS, Azure)
• SaaS product delivery
• Schema languages (XML Schema, JSON Schema)
• Agile and TDD methodologies
• CI/CD pipelines and version control (e.g., Git)
• Performance analysis and optimization
• Data modeling for agreement platforms
• Problem-solving in entrepreneurial environments
• Cross-team collaboration and communication
• Production issue resolution
• Security and accessibility best practices
• Open-source contribution experience

Benefits

• Competitive base salary: $151,200 - $222,450 (WA, MD, NJ, NY including NYC metro)
• Company bonus plan based on performance
• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) eligibility
• Paid Time Off including company holidays
• Paid Parental Leave up to six months
• Comprehensive health benefits with 100% employer-paid options from day one
• Retirement plans with employer contributions
• Learning and development including coaching and education reimbursements
• Compassionate Care Leave for life-changing events

DocuSign is an Equal Opportunity Employer.