UiPath

Senior Prinicipal Software Engineer

UiPath$150K — $180K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Proficient in using AI coding assistants like Claude and GitHub Copilot in daily development tasks.
  • Builder mindset with a passion for creating and deploying new solutions.
  • Expertise in C# and substantial backend development experience.
  • Proven track record of making rapid growth and impact in previous roles.
  • Experience in constructing reliable and scalable distributed systems.
  • Strong communication skills to articulate and understand customer needs.
  • Demonstrated customer empathy focused on end-user experience.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain backend services utilizing AI tools for building distributed systems.
  • Write production-quality code daily, enhancing development efficiency with AI assistance.
  • Translate customer needs into effective and elegant technical solutions.
  • Build highly reliable and scalable distributed systems essential for enterprise operations.
  • Contribute to on-call rotation responsibilities to maintain system reliability.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for hybrid, remote, or office-based work depending on team needs.
  • Exposure to a high-visibility role focused on strategic initiatives within the company.
Full Job Description
About the Role

Join the team and help build UiPath's most ambitious product - an AI agentic orchestration platform that's been recognized as our Invention of the Year for two consecutive years. As a Senior Principal Software Engineer, you'll be at the forefront of our 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.

What You'll Do
  • Build and Scale: Design, develop, and maintain backend services for products using AI Coding Assistant for building distributed systems
  • Hands-On Development: Write production-quality code daily, leveraging AI tools (Claude, GitHub Copilot, etc.) to enhance your development workflow
  • Customer-Centric Engineering: Deeply understand who will use the features you build and why they need them, translating customer needs into elegant technical solutions
  • Ensure Reliability: Contribute to building highly scalable, reliable distributed systems that enterprises depend on
  • On-Call Rotation: Participate in on-call rotation (approximately one week every 2-3 months) to ensure system reliability

What We're Looking For

Required Qualifications
  • Active use of AI coding assistants (Claude, GitHub Copilot, etc.) in your daily development workflow
  • Builder mindset - you love creating things from scratch and seeing them through to production
  • Strong C# expertise with proven backend development experience
  • Demonstrated track record of rapid growth and impact in previous roles
  • Experience building and maintaining distributed systems with a focus on scalability and reliability
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to understand and articulate customer needs
  • Customer empathy - you think deeply about the end-user experience

Nice to Have
  • Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration
  • Background in AI/ML systems or agentic workflows
  • Experience with workflow orchestration platforms
  • Contributions to open-source projects

About the Team

You'll be working with Lax and the Maestro backend team to build the core orchestration engine that powers enterprise AI automation. This is a high-visibility, high-impact role on UiPath's biggest strategic bet.

Why Join Us
  • Work on cutting-edge AI technology that's shaping the future of enterprise automation
  • Be part of a team building Times top 100Invention of the Year (2 years running)
  • Collaborate with talented engineers who value rapid iteration and customer impact
  • Contribute to UiPath's Act 2 strategy - our most important product initiative

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.

About UiPath

UiPath is a leading enterprise automation software company. The company's software platform enables organizations to automate business processes with ease, speed and reliability. UiPath's platform is used by more than 8,000 customers worldwide, including more than 50% of the Fortune 500. UiPath was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in New York City, with offices in more than 30 countries. The company has raised more than $2 billion in funding to date, and was valued at $35 billion in its most recent funding round in February 2021.
Learn more about UiPath
Size
4,000 employees
Market Cap
$6.6 billion
Industry
Founded
2005
NASDAQ

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