Senior Manager, Software Engineering

DocuSign, Inc.; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 178,900 - 262,825; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off

Health Benefits

Retirement Plans

Learning and Development Programs

Job summary

DocuSign, Inc. is seeking an Engineering Manager for its Storage-as-a-Service team, focused on building NoSQL and blob storage platforms across multiple clouds including Azure and Google Cloud. This role requires strong leadership and technical skills to define strategy and ensure operational excellence.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in software engineering and team management, with a focus on cloud infrastructure and NoSQL technologies. A hybrid work model is offered, with a minimum expectation of two days in the office per week.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience building large-scale distributed systems.
• 5+ years as an engineering manager leading backend or platform teams.
• Experience designing or operating NoSQL and/or blob storage systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead a high-impact engineering team responsible for cloud storage services.
• Define and execute a multi-year strategy for NoSQL & Blob STaaS.
• Own the reliability, availability, and performance of cloud platforms.

Skills

Software engineering

Cloud infrastructure

NoSQL systems

Team leadership

Kubernetes

Containers

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Azure

Google Cloud

Docker

Job description

Company Overview

Docusign brings agreements to life. Over 1.5 million customers and more than a billion people in over 180 countries use Docusign solutions to accelerate the process of doing business and simplify people’s lives. With intelligent agreement management, Docusign unleashes business-critical data that is trapped inside of documents. Until now, these were disconnected from business systems of record, costing businesses time, money, and opportunity. Using Docusign’s Intelligent Agreement Management platform, companies can create, commit, and manage agreements with solutions created by the #1 company in e‑signature and contract lifecycle management (CLM).

What you’ll do

Our STaaS (Storage‑as‑a‑Service) NoSQL & Blob platform team sits within Cloud & Production Engineering and partners closely with Intelligent Agreement Management (IAM), Product & Technology (P&T), DTS, and PLG. The team builds and operates the foundational NoSQL and object storage platforms that power Docusign’s global agreement workflows, spanning Azure (Cosmos DB, Blob Storage, GovCloud), Google Cloud (Firestore, GCS), and emerging multi‑cloud capabilities. The team builds and operates the foundational NoSQL and object storage platforms that power Docusign’s global agreement workflows, spanning Azure (Cosmos DB, Blob Storage, GovCloud), Google Cloud (Firestore, GCS), and emerging multi‑cloud capabilities. We hire people with a broad set of skills who want to work on platform solutions at scale, while ensuring world‑class reliability, security, and cost efficiency for our storage and data platforms.

This role owns the strategy, delivery, and operations of our core NoSQL and blob storage services, including availability, performance, security, and cost optimization across Azure and Google Cloud. You will lead a high‑impact engineering team responsible for: defining and delivering multi‑cloud storage abstractions and APIs that decouple product teams from specific cloud substrates; owning SLOs, incident response, and RCAs for our NoSQL and blob platforms, in partnership with SRE, security, and compliance; driving deprecations and migrations (for example, legacy Cassandra, MongoDB, or Cosmos DB patterns) to modern, governed platform offerings; establishing strong partnerships with Microsoft and Google for roadmap alignment, capacity planning, and joint incident management.

This position is a people manager role reporting to the Senior Director, Engineering.

Responsibility

• Build and lead a sustainable, high‑performing engineering team through hiring, coaching, retention, and thoughtful organizational design
• Define and execute a multi‑year strategy for NoSQL & Blob STaaS that balances operational excellence (SLOs, incidents, DR, cost) with platform roadmap (APIs, abstractions, deprecations, migrations)
• Own the reliability, availability, and performance of our NoSQL and blob platforms
• Partner with architecture, security, and compliance to define and enforce guardrails
• Lead platform initiatives that reduce risk and cost
• Collaborate with partner teams (product engineering, SRE, finance, security, and vendor partners)
• Manage the engineering lifecycle for the team
• Conduct design and code reviews and raise the technical bar for distributed storage systems
• Ensure high‑quality engineering practices, including testing, automation, observability, and capacity planning
• Define and track engineering KPIs (for example, incident counts, MTTR, SLO adherence, cost efficiency) and drive continuous improvement
• Create a culture of learning, experimentation, and ownership that encourages engineers to tackle hard problems in distributed systems, storage, and multi‑cloud infrastructure

Job Designation

Hybrid: Employee divides their time between in‑office and remote work. Access to an office location is required. (Frequency: Minimum 2 days per week; may vary by team but will be weekly in‑office expectation)

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.

What you bring

Basic

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 10+ years of hands‑on software engineering experience building large‑scale, highly available distributed systems or data platforms
• 5+ years of experience as an engineering manager leading backend, infrastructure, or platform teams
• Experience designing or operating NoSQL and/or blob storage systems (for example, Cosmos DB, Cassandra, Firestore, DynamoDB, Azure Blob, GCS, S3 or equivalents)
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (Azure and/or Google Cloud), containers (Docker), and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes
• Experience in at least one modern programming language (for example, C#, Java, Go, or similar) and infrastructure‑as‑code and automation
• Experience driving cross‑team initiatives, including incident management, RCAs, and systemic reliability improvements

Preferred

• Deep expertise in public cloud storage and data platforms, especially Azure (Cosmos DB, Blob, GovCloud) and Google Cloud (Firestore, GCS)
• Experience building or owning platform abstractions that decouple application teams from specific cloud providers (for example, internal APIs, SDKs, or storage gateways)
• Experience with cost optimization for storage and data platforms, including lifecycle management, archival strategies, and capacity planning
• Familiarity with security and compliance requirements for data at scale (for example, encryption, key management, network isolation, and governance in regulated environments)
• Experience leading teams responsible for mission‑critical services with 24x7 availability, including on‑call programs and SRE practices
• Working knowledge of DevOps practices and tooling (for example, CI/CD, observability stacks, configuration management)
• Experience working with or within large platform organizations, and with cloud vendors, on joint roadmap and incident efforts
• A track record of building inclusive, high‑trust teams and mentoring engineering leaders
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a track record of partnering with product, operations, and leadership stakeholders

Wage Transparency

Pay for this position is based on a number of factors including geographic location and may vary depending on job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Based on applicable legislation, the below details pay ranges in the following locations:

Washington, Maryland, New Jersey and New York (including NYC metro area): $178,900.00 - $262,825.00 base salary

This role is also eligible for the following:

• Bonus: Sales personnel are eligible for variable incentive pay dependent on their achievement of pre‑established sales goals. Non‑Sales roles are eligible for a company bonus plan, which is calculated as a percentage of eligible wages and dependent on company performance.
• Stock: This role is eligible to receive Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

Benefits

Global benefits provide options for the following:

• Paid Time Off: earned time off, as well as paid company holidays based on region
• Paid Parental Leave: take up to six months off with your child after birth, adoption or foster care placement
• Full Health Benefits Plans: options for 100% employer paid and minimum employee contribution health plans from day one of employment
• Retirement Plans: select retirement and pension programs with potential for employer contributions
• Learning and Development: options for coaching, online courses and education reimbursements
• Compassionate Care Leave: paid time off following the loss of a loved one and other life‑changing events

Accommodation: Docusign is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need such an accommodation, or a religious accommodation, during the application process, please contact us at [e-mail].

If you experience any issues, concerns, or technical difficulties during the application process please get in touch with our Talent organization at [e-mail] for assistance.

States Not Eligible for Employment

This position is not eligible for employment in the following states: Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming.

Equal Opportunity Employer

It's important to us that we build a talented team that is as diverse as our customers and where all employees feel a deep sense of belonging and thrive. We encourage great talent who bring a range of perspectives to apply for our open positions. Docusign is an Equal Opportunity Employer and makes hiring decisions based on experience, skill, aptitude and a can‑do approach. We will not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, age, sex, religion, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, registered domestic partner status, caregiver status, marital status, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected category.

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