Software Engineer Intern

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

As a Software Engineer Intern on the Cloud Engineering STaaS Team, you will help build a unified, multi-cloud storage platform that gives Docusign product teams standardized, self-service storage without requiring them to manage provider-specific Azure or Google Cloud infrastructure. You'll work with engineers to add security, compliance, reliability, operational, and cost-optimization guardrails so service teams can focus on product development.

This is an internship role for 3 months of duration.

This position is an individual contributor role reporting to the Senior Manager, Engineering.

Responsibility

• Contribute to the development and improvement of scalable cloud platform capabilities
• Help build self-service tools and automation that simplify infrastructure provisioning and management
• Support solutions that provide a consistent developer experience across multiple cloud environments
• Develop and maintain reliable, secure, compliant, and cost-effective platform services
• Assist with monitoring, operational tooling, backup and recovery, and disaster-recovery capabilities
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to design and deliver platform improvements
• Support modernization, migration, and adoption initiatives for cloud-based technologies
• Write clean, testable, and maintainable code, along with clear technical documentation
• Participate in technical design discussions, code reviews, testing, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement
• Use AI-assisted engineering tools responsibly to explore solutions, develop code and tests, and improve documentation

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

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree with a focus in Computer Science
• Expected graduation in December 2027 or May/June 2028
• Experience with databases or storage
• This role is not eligible for CPT, OPT or sponsorship now or in the future

Preferred

• Familiarity with PostgreSQL, Redis or caching, Key/Value stores, Blob storage, or messaging systems
• Exposure to Azure, Google Cloud, multi-cloud platforms, APIs, or infrastructure automation
• Understanding of distributed systems, data-plane or control-plane concepts, or storage access patterns
• Interest in reliability, security, compliance, observability, backup and recovery, or cost optimization
• Familiarity with AI coding assistants and the ability to review, validate, and secure AI-generated code

Wage Transparency

Pay for this position is based on a number of factors including geographic location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Based on applicable legislation, the below details pay ranges in the following locations:

Washington, Maryland, New Jersey and New York (including NYC metro area): $38 - $45 hourly base salary

Work Authorization Notice: Please note that we do not provide visa sponsorship or immigration support for this position. Applicants must already be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time, permanent basis without the need for current or future sponsorship.

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

Docusign is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need such an accommodation, or a religious accommodation, during the application process, please contact us at accommodations@docusign.com.

If you experience any issues, concerns, or technical difficulties during the application process please get in touch with our Talent organization at taops@docusign.com for assistance.

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States Not Eligible for Employment

This position is not eligible for employment in the following states: Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming.

Equal Opportunity Employer

It's important to us that we build a talented team that is as diverse as our customers and where all employees feel a deep sense of belonging and thrive. We encourage great talent who bring a range of perspectives to apply for our open positions. Docusign is an Equal Opportunity Employer and makes hiring decisions based on experience, skill, aptitude and a can-do approach. We will not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, age, sex, religion, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, registered domestic partner status, caregiver status, marital status, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected category.

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