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# Senior Software Engineer

- **Company:** Docusign, Inc.
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $158,300.0 - $266,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, C Sharp (Programming Language), Computer Programming, Databases, Distributed Systems, PostgreSQL, Software Engineering, Build Management, Performance Monitor, DocuSign
- **Published:** October 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://diversityjobs.com/career/18344480/Senior-Software-Engineer-California-San-Francisco

## About the Role

* 8+ years of relevant professional software development experience
 * Fluent in at least one core programming language (C#, Java) and its ecosystem
 * Experience in designing, building, and maintaining complex, scalable distributed systems
 * Operational Experience in performance monitoring, live site monitoring and being On-call

Preferred

 * Practical experience in Cosmos
 * Experience in building or redesigning DB using PostGresQL on Azure
 * Experience with AWS or Azure

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.

## Description

You are a hands-on technical expert who will guide and contribute to our development and operations teams to improve the creation of infrastructure solutions that scale with our rapid growth. As a successful senior engineer, you have a flexible attitude combined with an aptitude to learn and share. You are responsible not only for writing quality, scalable code. You enjoy working in a fast-paced agile environment, care about the team's decisions, and are focused on quality-driven development.

This position is an individual contributor role reporting to the Director, Software Engineering.

Responsibility

 * Architect, implement and maintain some of Docusign's highest scale and highest used services
 * Design and build highly scalable database and service solutions for new features
 * Build the next set of features and Apis to make Docusign a true customer development platform
 * Work with world class telemetry systems to work through complex problems and solve them with data
 * Guide and mentor other engineers through design and code reviews
 * Design and architect with the future in mind. Think through how systems will scale and fail as they grow
 * Take complicated problems and break them down in to bite sized pieces, then ship every few weeks to get there
 * Identify, propose, and implement process improvements to continuously increase the teams productivity and efficiency
 * Stay current with the latest development best practices and share your findings with the team

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.
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