Principal Software Engineer- Site Reliability

Uipath; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

UiPath is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for its Site Reliability team to design and build AI-powered platform systems used across the company. You will own end-to-end delivery from design through adoption, collaborating with multiple teams to ensure reliability and performance.

You will mentor engineers, drive architectural changes, and embed best practices into platforms, with a flexible, hybrid work model across the US.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of architecting and engineering large-scale distributed applications.
• Experience building platforms adopted by many teams in large companies.
• Proven ability to drive adoption by integration work and measurable outcomes.
• Experience building AI-powered applications in production.
• Proficiency in OO languages (C#, C++, Go, Python).
• Strong CS fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, multithreading.

Responsibilities

• Design, engineer, and build SRE platform systems and capabilities with cutting-edge AI, treating them as products that other engineering teams depend on.
• Participate in livesite monitoring rotations, handle escalations, and drive effective mitigations.
• Drive availability, scalability, and performance improvements based on livesite learnings.
• Ensure deliverables meet reliability, scalability, quality, and performance expectations.
• Onboard other teams by driving integrations and removing friction.
• Ship early, seek feedback relentlessly, iterate fast.
• Drive task planning, estimation, scheduling, and staffing.
• Mentor Software Engineers to develop their skills and knowledge.
• Influence process improvements and best practices across the organization.
• Experience with cloud providers (Azure, AWS, GCP) is a must.

Skills

C#

C++

Go

Python

Distributed systems

Microservices

Kubernetes

Azure

AWS

GCP

CI/CD

DevOps

Databases

Cloud platforms

Design scalable systems

Tools

Kubernetes

AKS / GKE

Job description

Life at UiPath

The people at UiPath believe in the transformative power of automation to change how the world works. We’re committed to creating category-leading enterprise software that unleashes that power.

To make that happen, we need people who are curious, self-propelled, generous, and genuine. People who love being part of a fast-moving, fast-thinking growth company. And people who care—about each other, about UiPath, and about our larger purpose.

Could that be you?

Your mission

We see boundless potential in the way we live. It drives the way we work. Our culture is our most valuable asset. It acts like a compass for us. We are fast, immersed, humble and bold. And thatʼs not just words on the walls.
Eliminating time-consuming tasks means people get to do more of what they love. Itʼs an inspiring, high stakes challenge that motivates us, and this common passion bonds UiPath employees globally. We all strive every day to be better and to accelerate human achievement. We make software robots, so people donʼt have to be robots. Would you like to be part of this journey?

At UiPath's Site Reliability team, we build the platforms and systems the entire company depends on to deliver on our compliance and SLA promises to customers. These span services and tools that enforce cloud access policies, cost governance, observability, operational excellence, and reliability across UiPath. We are scaling each of these pillars, and building the next generation of capabilities on each, powered by AI.

This is a software engineering role. You will not be the person who identifies a reliability gap and files a ticket for another team to fix. You are the engineer who identifies the gaps across teams, designs the system that closes it, builds it, ships it, and drives its adoption — often by doing the integration work yourself rather than asking other teams to come to you. You build platforms that other engineers depend on in their critical path, and you hold yourself accountable to outcomes, not outputs.

You treat every system you ship as a product: you put it in front of users early, seek feedback aggressively, and iterate until it delivers real results. If adoption is slow, you donʼt blame the docs — you sit with the team, understand the friction, and remove it.

What you will be doing at UiPath
As a Principal Software Engineer, you will

• Design, engineer, and build SRE platform systems and capabilities with cutting-edge AI, treating them as products that other engineering teams depend on in their critical path.

• Participate in livesite monitoring rotations, handle escalations, and drive effective mitigations — aggressively reducing customer impact through broad, detailed, and effective postmortems.

• Drive availability, scalability, and performance improvements based on livesite learnings. Generate (or codify existing) best practices and ensure they are followed widely across UiPath — not by publishing guidance, but by embedding them into the systems you build.

• Ensure technical deliverables meet or exceed expectations on reliability, scalability, quality, and performance. Identify and drive architectural changes that significantly move the needle on these dimensions.

• Onboard other teams onto your platforms by driving outcomes yourself — writing the integrations, pairing with their engineers, removing friction — rather than handing off documentation and waiting.

• Ship early, seek feedback relentlessly, and iterate fast. Treat every user complaint as a design input, not a support ticket.

• Drive task planning, estimation, scheduling, and staffing.

• Mentor Software Engineers to develop their skills and knowledge through hands-on coaching, advice, and training opportunities.

• Participate in and influence process improvements and best practices across the engineering organization.

• What youʼll bring to UiPath

• Proven track record (10+ years) of architecting and engineering world-class, large-scale, distributed commercial applications and services, and ensuring customer success.

• Experience building large-scale, complex internal platforms adopted by 10+ teams in their critical path at a large company — systems that have stood the test of time, not prototypes that were handed off or abandoned.

• Demonstrated ability to drive adoption of your systems by doing the hard work yourself: writing integrations, removing friction for other teams, and measuring success by outcomes delivered — not features shipped.

• Experience building and maintaining complex AI-powered applications in production.

• Proficiency in one or more object-oriented languages (such as C#, C++, Go, or Python), backed by solid computer science fundamentals.

• Deep understanding of data structures, algorithms, multithreading, synchronization, asynchronous patterns, and cloud programming.

• Experience with service-oriented and microservice-based architectures, HTTP applications, and web services development.

• Familiarity with modern engineering practices including agile development, CI/CD, and DevOps. Ability to work with globally distributed teams.

• Experience working with or managing production Kubernetes infrastructure is a plus.

• Experience with any of the cloud providers (Azure, AWS, GCP) and managed services (AKS, GKE, etc.) is a must.

• Experience with database backends (e.g., Azure SQL, CosmosDB, Azure Data Lake, Power BI, MongoDB, MySQL, DynamoDB, etc.)
  
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Maybe you don’t tick all the boxes above—but still think you’d be great for the job? Go ahead, apply anyway. Please. Because we know that experience comes in all shapes and sizes—and passion can’t be learned.

Many of our roles allow for flexibility in when and where work gets done. Depending on the needs of the business and the role, the number of hybrid, office-based, and remote workers will vary from team to team. Applications are assessed on a rolling basis and there is no fixed deadline for this requisition. The application window may change depending on the volume of applications received or may close immediately if a qualified candidate is selected.

We value a range of diverse backgrounds, experiences and ideas. We pride ourselves on our diversity and inclusive workplace that provides equal opportunities to all persons regardless of age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and expression, national origin, disability, neurodiversity, military and/or veteran status, or any other protected classes. Additionally, UiPath provides reasonable accommodations for candidates on request and respects applicants' privacy rights. To review these and other legal disclosures, visit our privacy policy.