Lead Software Development Engineer

Company Overview
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).

What you'll do

Our business is built on finding great people and getting out of their way while they build and improve our award-winning Software as a Service (SaaS) offering. We are seeking a Lead Software Development Engineer to join the Sign engineering team. Our company thrives on empowering talented individuals to enhance our award-winning Software as a Service (SaaS) offering. This role will focus on the architecture of Docusign HSM (Hardware Security Module), specifically the QSCD (Qualified Signature Device) - digital signature product functions as a local Qualified Signature/Seal Creation Device (QSigCD or QSealCD) in a secure operational environment.

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will lead the certification process for both FIPS and Common Criteria for the architecture and development of the Docusign QSCD. Your responsibilities will include understanding the regulatory requirements of both CC and FIPS certification bodies and running the entire QSCD certification process, design and develop new features for DocuSign cloud and on-premises services. The role requires strong engineering leadership, hands-on coding experience, and excellent documentation skills

This is an individual contributor position, and reports to the Director, Engineering.

Responsibility

• Lead and drive certification efforts for Common Criteria (EAL4+/EAL5+) and FIPS 140-3, including coordination with testing labs and certification authorities
• Serve as the technical authority on PKI, cryptographic modules, and secure key management implementations
• Author and maintain high-quality technical documentation, including Security Target (ST), Functional Specifications Implementation Representation, and Certification Evidence
• Work cross-functionally with product, compliance, QA, and Ramp;D teams to integrate regulatory and security requirements throughout the SDLC
• Write high quality code that is easy to maintain and test
• Design and build platform components for customer reporting and data, improving customer effectiveness at deploying and using Docusign
• Support strategic code sharing and architecture for one or more functional area
• Ensure design and architecture is extensible across multiple projects, and participate in technical design and code reviews
• Work with Product Management and other developers to understand design requirements and provide estimates for development
• Work cooperatively with product management and design to create features that are scalable and secure
• Identify, propose, and implement process improvements to continuously increase the team's productivity and efficiency
• Stay current with the latest development standard methodologies and share your findings with the team
• Work as part of a cross-site development team to drive design, implementation, testing, and release of products
• Raise issues proactively that might impact delivery commitments
• Act as a thought leader in security and compliance practices
• Research new features and technologies
• Fix production issues and maintain the code as needed
• Coach and mentor other team members with new technologies
• Track lab questions and responses through structured document change logs and response trackers

Job Designation

Hybrid:
Employee divides their time between in-office and remote work. Access to an office location is required. (Frequency: Minimum 2 days per week; may vary by team but will be weekly in-office expectation)

Positions at Docusign are assigned a job designation of either In Office, Hybrid or Remote and are specific to the role/job. Preferred job designations are not guaranteed when changing positions within Docusign. Docusign reserves the right to change a position's job designation depending on business needs and as permitted by local law.

What you bring

Basic

• Ability to prepare and package documentation for submission to accredited labs (FIPS and CC)
• Ability to maintain clean, well-organized document sets for Lab testing and validation and certification body review
• 12+ years of product development experience
• Experience in large C# or Java or C/C++ projects
• Experience designing and developing highly scalable consumer facing web application
• Hands-on, professional experience with consuming and building RESTful web-services
• BS degree in Computer Science or relevant field of study

Preferred

• Knowledge of Linux OS from the kernel level (willingness to learn) down to the application level
• Experience in Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) cryptography
• Experience with full stack development, preferably in one or more of OO programming languages, like C#, C++, Java
• Knowledge and experience in high scale, highly available systems
• SaaS or Cloud experience, with Azure/MSF background
• Experience in SW-HW integration
• Experience in working in an agile development environment
• Curiosity and ability to learn new technologies and tool sets
• Experience with Microsoft technology stack (.NET, C#, SQL Server, etc.)
• Prior experience aligning platform architecture with security and data
• Experience with unit testing frameworks
• Experience developing, promoting and building consensus across engineering teams
• Willingness to learn Linux at a deep level
• Excellent documentation skills
• Excellent problem-solving skills

Life at Docusign

Working here
Docusign is committed to building trust and making the world more agreeable for our employees, customers and the communities in which we live and work. You can count on us to listen, be honest, and try our best to do what's right, every day. At Docusign, everything is equal.

We each have a responsibility to ensure every team member has an equal opportunity to succeed, to be heard, to exchange ideas openly, to build lasting relationships, and to do the work of their life. Best of all, you will be able to feel deep pride in the work you do, because your contribution helps us make the world better than we found it. And for that, you'll be loved by us, our customers, and the world in which we live.

Accommodation
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