Principal Software Engineer

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 decisio

Department: Engineering; Team: Engineering