Prinicipal Software Engineer

About the role

The person in this role thrives in a fast-moving, fast-thinking growth company where they are expected to be curious, self-propelled, generous, and genuine. They will own the design and delivery of UiPath's most ambitious product - an AI agentic orchestration platform recognized as the company's Invention of the Year for two consecutive years. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be at the forefront of Act 2 strategy, building the infrastructure that allows enterprises to seamlessly orchestrate AI agents, robots, and human-in-the-loop workflows to achieve critical business outcomes. You will partner closely with Lax and the Maestro backend team to ensure the core orchestration engine meets enterprise-grade standards for scalability and reliability. This is a high-visibility, high-impact role on a strategic bet that defines the future of enterprise automation. You will translate customer needs into elegant technical solutions while demonstrating deep customer empathy and understanding of end-user experience.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Build and Scale: Design, develop, and maintain backend services for products using AI Coding Assistant for building distributed systems, ensuring robust architectures that support evolving enterprise demands.
• Hands-On Development: Write production-quality code daily, leveraging AI tools such as Claude and GitHub Copilot to enhance your development workflow and accelerate high-quality delivery.
• Customer-Centric Engineering: Deeply understand who will use the features you build and why they need them, translating complex business requirements into clear, actionable technical specifications.
• Ensure Reliability: Contribute to building highly scalable, reliable distributed systems that enterprises depend on for mission-critical automation and operational continuity.
• On-Call Rotation: Participate in on-call rotation approximately one week every 2 to 3 months to respond to incidents and safeguard system reliability.
• Orchestration Innovation: Help define and evolve workflows for agentic orchestration platforms, enabling seamless coordination between AI agents, robots, and human stakeholders.
• Performance Optimization: Profile and optimize backend services to meet stringent scalability targets, reducing latency and improving throughput under heavy enterprise loads.
• Collaboration and Mentorship: Work closely with cross-functional teams, sharing knowledge and guiding junior engineers to elevate the overall quality and maintainability of the codebase.
• Tooling and Automation: Build internal tools and automation that empower engineers to develop, test, and deploy services more efficiently across the product lifecycle.
• Continuous Learning: Stay current with emerging trends in AI, automation, and distributed systems to identify opportunities for adopting new techniques that enhance product capabilities.
• Quality Ownership: Drive best practices in testing, monitoring, and observability to ensure that new features are reliable, debuggable, and easy to maintain over time.
• Stakeholder Communication: Partner with product managers, designers, and business stakeholders to clarify objectives and align technical solutions with strategic goals.

Requirements

• You actively use AI coding assistants such as Claude and GitHub Copilot in your daily development workflow to augment your productivity and code quality.
• You possess a builder mindset, loving to create things from scratch and seeing them through to production deployment and ongoing operation.
• You have strong C# expertise with proven backend development experience, writing clean, maintainable, and performant code.
• You demonstrate a rapid growth trajectory and a track record of delivering high-impact results in previous roles.
• You have experience building and maintaining distributed systems with a strong focus on scalability, reliability, and operational resilience.
• You communicate excellently, with the ability to understand complex customer needs and articulate technical trade-offs to diverse audiences.
• You show deep customer empathy, thinking rigorously about the end-user experience and how your work solves real-world problems.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration to manage scalable deployments and services.
• A background in AI or ML systems, including familiarity with agentic workflows and related design patterns.
• Experience with workflow orchestration platforms that enable complex automation across systems and teams.
• A history of meaningful contributions to open-source projects that demonstrate technical leadership and community engagement.

Practical notes

• This role may involve hybrid, office-based, or remote work arrangements depending on business and role needs, with the number of remote workers varying by team.
• Applications are assessed on a rolling basis, and there is no fixed deadline for this requisition; the application window may change based on the volume of applications or may close immediately if a qualified candidate is selected.
• Please note that this position is located in Bellevue, and any relocation or extended travel requirements will be discussed with the hiring team if applicable.
• UiPath is an equal opportunity employer, committed to diversity and inclusion in all employment decisions.