Principal Software Engineer

The role

You will define and evolve the technical strategy for cloud services powering the UiPath platform. You will lead architecture and design for complex backend and distributed systems.

What you will do

• Lead the architecture and technical direction of complex backend and cloud-native services.
• Design scalable, secure, reliable, and high-performing distributed systems.
• Partner with engineering leaders, architects, product managers, and cross-functional teams.
• Drive technical planning and roadmap input for complex services and platform capabilities.
• Identify long-term scalability, reliability, security, performance, and cost challenges.
• Set high standards for system design, code quality, testing, observability, and automation.
• Mentor and guide engineers through design reviews and technical discussions.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• 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.
• 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.
• Strong technical leadership, ownership, and communication skills.

Nice to have

• Interest in automation, AI, developer platforms, enterprise software, or large-scale cloud systems

About the company

UiPath believes in the transformative power of automation to change how the world works. They are committed to creating category-leading enterprise software.