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# Principal Software Engineer

- **Company:** Docusign, Inc.
- **Location:** Peoria, IL, United States (Remote available)
- **Salary:** $182,200 - $342,650
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft Azure, Distributed Systems, Github, Python (Programming Language), Software Engineering, Systems Architecture, Kubernetes, Azure AKS, Cloud Migration, Terraform, DocuSign, Dynatrace, Microservices
- **Published:** November 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://diversityjobs.com/career/18873003/Principal-Software-Engineer-Georgia

## About the Role

* 15+ years of experience in large-scale distributed systems, software engineering, or infrastructure roles, with a track record of driving system architecture
 * Experience as a software engineer by trade with deep proficiency in Go or Python, possessing a "code-first" approach and a passion for writing production-grade automation services alongside the engineering team
 * Experience with proven technical leadership in building global, active-active distributed systems at hyperscale, functioning simultaneously as an architect and an engineering peer
 * Experience with production-hardened mastery of Kubernetes and Terraform to manage complex, multi-tenant cloud topographies
 * Experience acting as a primary Lead Incident Commander for tier-0 global outages, with the ability to translate operational chaos into actionable technical stabilization
 * Experience defining "Developer Experience" strategies and contributing to Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) that bake resilience and infrastructure abstractions directly into developer workflows

Preferred

 * 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
 * Experience developing self-healing infrastructure patterns through a blend of deterministic code and AI-assisted/predictive anomaly remediation models
 * Experience championing and setting up automated fault-injection frameworks to proactively prove system recoverability before a real production blast radius occurs
 * Experience building safe deployment architectures (Canary, Blue/Green) managed via secure pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps) with automated safety policies embedded directly into the code lifecycle

## Description

* 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

Job Designation

Remote: Employee is not required to be in or near an office frequently and works from a designated remote work location for the majority of the time.

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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