Principal Software Engineer

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with strong backend and cloud development experience.
• Hands-on experience with one or more modern programming languages such as C#, Java, Python, or Go.
• Strong experience designing and building distributed systems, microservices, APIs, and cloud-native architectures.
• Proven ability to influence technical direction and drive architecture decisions across teams.
• Experience building and operating production-grade services in cloud environments such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Good knowledge of containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, monitoring, logging, observability, and production operations.

Nice to Haves

• Strong understanding of system design, data structures, algorithms, multithreading, asynchronous programming, and performance optimization.
• Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases, messaging systems, event-driven architectures, or high-scale data processing.
• Ability to balance customer experience, reliability, security, scalability, and cloud cost when making technical decisions.
• Strong technical leadership, ownership, and communication skills, with the ability to guide teams through ambiguity.
• Interest in automation, AI, developer platforms, enterprise software, or large-scale cloud systems is a plus.

What you'll be doing

• Lead the architecture and technical direction of complex backend and cloud-native services across the UiPath platform.
• Design scalable, secure, reliable, and high-performing distributed systems across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.
• Partner with engineering leaders, architects, product managers, and cross-functional teams to shape technical solutions for high-impact product and platform areas.
• Drive technical planning and roadmap input for complex services, platform capabilities, or cross-team initiatives.
• Identify long-term scalability, reliability, security, performance, and cost challenges, and lead the design of sustainable solutions.
• Set high standards for system design, code quality, testing, observability, automation, incident management, and engineering excellence.
• Mentor and guide engineers through design reviews, technical discussions, architecture decisions, and hands-on technical feedback.

Perks and Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements for hybrid, office-based, and remote workers.
• Equality and diversity promoted with equal opportunities for all.
• Reasonable accommodations provided for candidates upon request.