Principal Software Engineer, IXP
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
As a Principal Software Engineer in the UiPath IXP organization, you will shape the technical direction of our intelligent document processing platform and the systems powering AI-driven extraction at enterprise scale.
You will provide technical leadership, architectural vision, and strategic ownership across multiple services - influencing how we design, build, and operate distributed systems globally. You will guide the evolution of backend services, real-time pipelines, and platform infrastructure, ensuring they meet the reliability, scalability, and security demands of enterprise customers.
You will develop a deep understanding of the product and its end-to-end architecture, driving engineering strategy that is grounded in real customer and business impact. You will lead by influence - raising the technical bar across teams, identifying systemic risks and opportunities, and owning outcomes that span the full engineering lifecycle.
What you'll do at UiPath
Technical Leadership & Vision
Define and drive the long-term architectural direction for core backend and platform systems supporting enterprise-scale workloads.
Identify systemic technical risks and opportunities, leading cross-team initiatives that improve scalability, reliability, and developer productivity.
Establish engineering standards, architectural principles, and best practices adopted across the organization.
Partner with product and engineering leadership to translate business strategy into clear, actionable technical execution.
Distributed Systems & Platform Engineering
Design and own large-scale distributed backend systems, with a focus on correctness, availability, and operational excellence.
Solve hard concurrency, performance, and data consistency problems across services and infrastructure.
Drive platform investments that improve system resilience, observability, and deployment efficiency across cloud environments.
Work across the stack - from API design and service architecture to database schema, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD - owning end-to-end delivery of complex technical initiatives.
Engage with complex infrastructure requirements around data security, multi-tenancy, compliance, and regulated customer environments.
Product & Engineering Strategy
Develop a thorough understanding of the IXP product, its architecture, and how engineering decisions affect customer outcomes.
Contribute to and challenge product strategy from an engineering perspective, surfacing trade-offs and shaping roadmap priorities.
Translate ambiguous, long-horizon product problems into concrete engineering plans with clear milestones and measurable outcomes.
Ensure that the platform evolves in a way that is coherent, maintainable, and fit for purpose - not just for today's requirements, but for the direction the product is heading.
Collaboration & Engineering Culture
Work closely with senior engineers and team leads across IXP to align on architectural direction and shared platform concerns.
Mentor engineers at all levels, raising the technical bar through code review, design feedback, and hands-on pairing.
Contribute to hiring by identifying and evaluating strong engineering talent.
Champion engineering best practices, operational discipline, and a culture of continuous improvement.
What you'll bring to the team
7+ years designing and operating large-scale distributed commercial systems.
Demonstrated impact beyond a single team, influencing architecture or engineering direction across multiple groups.
Deep expertise in backend systems, distributed architectures, concurrency, and performance optimization.
Strong experience with cloud ecosystems (Azure, AWS, or GCP) and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm).
Proficiency in Python or comparable backend languages; Rust or other systems languages a strong plus.
Experience with distributed databases and data platforms (e.g., PostgreSQL, CockroachDB, Elasticsearch).
A strong end-to-end product sense - the ability to connect engineering decisions to customer outcomes and business strategy.
Strong architectural judgment and ability to evaluate trade-offs across scale, complexity, and delivery timelines.
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences and build alignment across engineering and product stakeholders.
Working knowledge of GNU/Linux and production operations.
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.
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