Principal Software Engineer

Uipath
Bucharest, Romania
On-site

Who this role is best for

Best suited to experienced software architects working in enterprise automation and cloud-native systems, with a focus on technical leadership and cross-functional collaboration.

Best fit for

  • Experienced software architects with a track record in cloud-native and distributed system design
    — “Lead the architecture and technical direction of complex backend and cloud-native services”
  • Candidates who have shaped technical direction and driven decisions across cross-functional teams
    — “Proven ability to influence technical direction and drive architecture decisions across teams”
  • Individuals with 7+ years of experience and a focus on backend and cloud development
    — “7+ years of software engineering experience, with strong backend and cloud development experience”

Things to consider

  • Work arrangement flexibility may vary by team and depend on business needs
    — “Many of our roles allow for flexibility in when and where work gets done”
  • The role requires balancing multiple technical priorities in decision-making
    — “Ability to balance customer experience, reliability, security, scalability, and cloud cost when making technical decisions”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your experience in shaping technical strategies for large-scale systems
    — “help define and evolve the technical strategy for cloud services”
  • Emphasize your ability to lead through ambiguity and cross-team impact
    — “working through ambiguity, dependencies, and cross-team impact”
  • Showcase your leadership in setting engineering standards for observability and automation
    — “Set high standards for system design, code quality, testing, observability, automation”
  • Demonstrate hands-on experience with cloud environments like Azure, AWS, or GCP
    — “Experience building and operating production-grade services in cloud environments”
  • Position yourself as a leader who can guide teams in complex technical trade-offs
    — “help teams make the right technical tradeoffs across scalability, reliability, security”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Company

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • lead architecture and technical direction
  • design scalable and secure systems
  • drive technical planning and roadmap input
  • identify long-term challenges and solutions
Typical background
7+ years of software engineering experience

Skills & requirements

Required

Cloud Services ArchitectureDistributed Systems DesignTechnical PlanningEngineering StandardsSystem DesignCode QualityTestingObservabilityIncident ManagementEngineering Excellence

Preferred

AutomationAIDeveloper PlatformsEnterprise SoftwareLarge-scale Cloud Systems

Stack & domain

C#JavaPythonGoCloud-native ServicesDistributed SystemsMicroservicesApisCloud EnvironmentsContainersKubernetesCI/CDMonitoringLoggingObservabilityProduction OperationsRelational DatabasesNosql DatabasesMessaging SystemsEvent-driven ArchitecturesHigh-scale Data ProcessingTechnical LeadershipOwnershipCommunicationSoftware EngineeringCloudAutomationAIDeveloper PlatformsEnterprise SoftwareLarge-scale Cloud Systems

About the role

Original posting from Uipath via Ashby

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, you will help define and evolve the technical strategy for cloud services that power critical automation capabilities across the UiPath platform. You will lead architecture and design across complex backend and distributed systems, often working through ambiguity, dependencies, and cross-team impact. You will help teams make the right technical tradeoffs across scalability, reliability, security, customer experience, operational excellence, and cloud cost, while setting engineering standards that support UiPath’s current and future growth.

WHAT YOU'LL DO AT UIPATH

  • Lead the architecture and technical direction of complex backend and cloud-native services across the UiPath platform.
  • Design scalable, secure, reliable, and high-performing distributed systems across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.
  • Partner with engineering leaders, architects, product managers, and cross-functional teams to shape technical solutions for high-impact product and platform areas.
  • Drive technical planning and roadmap input for complex services, platform capabilities, or cross-team initiatives.
  • Identify long-term scalability, reliability, security, performance, and cost challenges, and lead the design of sustainable solutions.
  • Set high standards for system design, code quality, testing, observability, automation, incident management, and engineering excellence.
  • Mentor and guide engineers through design reviews, technical discussions, architecture decisions, and hands-on technical feedback.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING TO THE TEAM

  • 7+ years of software engineering experience, with 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 when making technical decisions.
  • Strong technical leadership, ownership, and communication skills, with the ability to guide teams through ambiguity.
  • Interest in automation, AI, developer platforms, enterprise software, or large-scale cloud systems is a plus.

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 https://www.uipath.com/legal/trust-and-security/privacy-policy.

Source: Uipath careers (Ashby)

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