Senior Prinicipal Software Engineer

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

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 100 Invention 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