Principal Software Engineer, LLM Gateway

The role

You will set the technical direction of the AI Trust Layer and lead the architecture of a secure, globally distributed proxy. You will own the LLM infrastructure and how customers control AI within their organizations.

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.