Hiring: Principal Software Engineer Company: Docusign Location: United States Job Posted Time: 2026-09-03 10:16:14 Employment Type: Contract / Remote Target Skills & Keywords : Azure, Azure DevOps, Embedded Systems, GitHub Actions, IAM, Kubernetes, Microservices, OpenTelemetry, Python, Terraform About the job Experience: •15+ years of experience in large-scale distributed systems, software engineering, or infrastructure roles, with a track record of driving system architecture Required Skills: •This position is an individual contributor role reporting to the VP, Engineering - Site Reliability. •Lead and code with the team •Lead the cultural and technical shift toward treating reliability as a product feature •Move the org away from reactive "ops" work toward building durable platforms and self-healing systems •Possess elite Incident Commander skills while not expected to be in the daily on-call rotation, stepping in during high-stakes outages to bring calm and clarity, and use those experiences to architect systems that ensure those incidents never happen again •Define the "Golden Paths" for our Cloud migration, ensuring that as Docusign scales globally, our architecture remains "Multi-Active" and impervious to regional cloud failures •Challenge the status quo, mentoring Senior and Staff SREs to think like software architects •Advocate for "Error Budgets" that have real teeth, influencing product roadmaps to prioritize long-term stability Qualifications: •Technical expertise executing high-stakes on-premises to cloud migrations natively within Microsoft Azure (specifically utilizing Azure Kubernetes Service / AKS and Azure traffic routing) •Hands-on experience architecting global distributed tracing capabilities using the OpenTelemetry ecosystem to track deep, user-centric SLO metrics across microservices •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. Compensation: •Paid Time Off: earned time off, as well as paid company holidays based on region Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!