Software Engineer Intern

About the role

Docusign brings agreements to life. Over 1.5 million customers and more than a billion people in over 180 countries use Docusign solutions to accelerate the process of doing business and simplify people’s lives. With intelligent agreement management, Docusign unleashes business-critical data that is trapped inside of documents. Until now, these were disconnected from business systems of record, costing businesses time, money, and opportunity. Using Docusign’s Intelligent Agreement Management platform, companies can create, commit, and manage agreements with solutions created by the #1 company in e-signature and contract lifecycle management (CLM). This internship is for a duration of 12 weeks. This position is an individual contributor role reporting to the Director, Software Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with senior engineers to design and implement guardrails and safety mechanisms for MCP extensions and connectors that interact with external systems and 3P applications
• Build and enhance monitoring, logging, and alerting to provide deep visibility into Agent behavior and flows within the IRIS ecosystem
• Contribute to backend and/or services codebases, including writing, debugging, and testing code for new features and improvements under the guidance of your mentor and team
• Participate in the full software development lifecycle: design discussions, implementation, code reviews, testing, deployment, and post-deployment monitoring
• Help define and improve developer experiences for internal and external builders using our platform, including contributing to documentation and examples where needed
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders (product, security, platform teams) to understand requirements and translate them into well-scoped engineering tasks
• Present your work through demos and a final internship presentation, highlighting your design decisions, impact, and learnings

Requirements

• Currently enrolled in a Bachelor's degree program in a relevant field with an expected graduation date between December 2027 and May/June 2028
• Field of study in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a closely related technical discipline
• Experience with object-oriented programming, data structures, and algorithms (through coursework, side projects, or prior internships)
• Experience writing, debugging, and testing code in at least one modern programming language

Skills

• Familiarity with cloud computing concepts and platforms (e.g., Azure or AWS)
• Experience with TypeScript or JavaScript, or an interest in learning them
• Exposure to modern "agentic" developer tools such as GitHub Copilot or similar AI-assisted coding tools
• Strong communication skills and a demonstrated hunger to learn new technologies and