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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
About the Role
We are seeking a highly skilled Principal Software Engineer to lead the design and development of the Data Fabric platform—a next-generation distributed data infrastructure that enables seamless data integration, processing, governance and security at scale. As a key technical leader, you will architect robust, scalable, and high-performance systems while mentoring engineering teams to deliver cutting-edge data solutions.
WHAT YOU'LL DO AT UIPATH
- Architect, Design and Build: Lead the technical vision, architecture, and implementation of the Data Fabric platform, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security.
- Distributed Systems: Design and optimize large-scale distributed data systems for ingestion, storage, processing, and querying.
- Technical Leadership: Mentor senior engineers, set best practices, and drive innovation in data engineering and infrastructure.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with teams across other locations to innovate and develop best-in-class solutions.
- Performance Optimization: Identify bottlenecks, improve system efficiency, and ensure high availability for data workloads.
- Standards & Governance: Establish engineering standards, code reviews, and CI/CD pipelines for high-quality deliverables.
- Ownership: Stay accountable for the software deliverables to meet all requirements of quality, security, scalability, modifiability, extensibility, testability etc.
- Emerging Technologies: Evaluate and integrate new tools (e.g., Apache Kafka, Spark, Flink, Iceberg, Kubernetes) to enhance the platform.
- Leverage AI tools/Coding agents responsibly to accelerate development (e.g., code generation, testing, debugging, documentation), while maintaining a high engineering quality bar.
WHAT YOU'LL BRING TO THE TEAM
- Bachelor’s/master's degree in engineering, Computer Science (or equivalent experience).
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years in distributed data systems
- Proficiency in one or more system level programming languages (C#, Java etc.) and a willingness to learn new ones
- Strong understanding of object-oriented programming, architectural design patterns, system design and data structures & algorithms.
- Good grasp of multithreading, synchronization, asynchronous, cloud programming.
- Experience working with Cloud ecosystems such as Azure, AWS, GCP.
- Familiar with modern engineering practices, including agile development, CI/CD and DevOps.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes or other containerization technologies.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, and experience in delivering critical time bound projects, managing timelines and team development.
- Proven track record of effectively collaborating with globally distributed teams.
- Ability to understand, communicate, provide feedback on, and drive complex technical decisions.
Nice to have
- Full-stack development experience
- Understanding of LLMs and the AI powered API automation.
- Experience with GraphQL, data mesh architectures.
- Familiarity with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana)
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Maybe you don’t tick all the boxes above—but still think you’d be great for the job? Go ahead, apply anyway. Please. Because we know that experience comes in all shapes and sizes—and passion can’t be learned.
Many of our roles allow for flexibility in when and where work gets done. Depending on the needs of the business and the role, the number of hybrid, office-based, and remote workers will vary from team to team. Applications are assessed on a rolling basis and there is no fixed deadline for this requisition. The application window may change depending on the volume of applications received or may close immediately if a qualified candidate is selected.
We value a range of diverse backgrounds, experiences and ideas. We pride ourselves on our diversity and inclusive workplace that provides equal opportunities to all persons regardless of age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and expression, national origin, disability, neurodiversity, military and/or veteran status, or any other protected classes. Additionally, UiPath provides reasonable accommodations for candidates on request and respects applicants' privacy rights. To review these and other legal disclosures, visit our privacy policy.
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It is best described as a structured hybrid employer. UiPath's careers page says roles are hybrid, remote, or office-based, and defines hybrid as working onsite a minimum of two days a week depending on team needs. That two-day minimum is a requirement, not a preference, so hybrid roles are not a work-from-anywhere arrangement.
A minority of them. Of the 117 roles open at the time this profile was written, 32 were remote, 76 were on-site, and 9 were hybrid. Remote-tagged openings skewed toward sales and customer-facing roles in markets without a nearby office, for example an Associate Sales Representative in Taipei and a public-sector Customer Success Manager based remotely in Maryland. Each posting carries its own workplace type, so read that field on the specific job rather than assuming from the department.
Widely. Open roles at the time of this profile spanned 21 countries, led by the United States, Romania, India, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Japan, with single openings in places like Indonesia, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, and Spain. The largest employee populations are in the United States, Romania, and India, and Bucharest and Bengaluru are the two biggest single concentrations outside the US. UiPath declares 19 offices, including Amsterdam, Atlanta, Austin, Bengaluru, Bucharest, Dubai, Houston, London, Munich, New York, Paris, San Jose, Sao Paulo, Seattle, Singapore, Tokyo, Toronto, and Tysons Corner.
Only on some postings. Its job board shows pay on a subset of roles, for example a Business Development Representative in Austin at $52K to $70K plus commission, a Director of Product Management in Bellevue at $230K to $270K plus equity and bonus, and an Enterprise Account Executive in Milan at 153,800 to 230,650 euros. Roughly two in five US postings show nothing at all. UiPath does not publish a compensation philosophy or pay bands, so if the range is not on the listing, you will need to ask for it early in the process.
The company's own benefits language highlights equity for every employee, unlimited PTO, medical, dental and vision coverage, employer-covered disability insurance, an employee assistance program covering mental health and legal support, retirement plans with a company match, paid family leave for all parents, and flexible working hours. Two caveats worth knowing: the careers site publishes no specific figures for PTO days, retirement match percentage, or parental leave length, and the /benefits URL redirects to the homepage rather than to a real benefits page. Office perks such as free meals and on-site fitness apply where there is an office to use them.
UiPath publishes four values with concrete sub-tenets rather than slogans. Humble means keeping an open mind, cultivating kindness, being a team player, and checking your ego. Bold means speaking up, acting with courage, making decisions, and thinking big. Immersed means diving deep, being passionate, owning what you do, and being customer centric. Fast means practicing agility, prioritizing simplicity, driving results, and being proactive. Expect those four to shape how interviewers frame questions. The company does not publish an interview-process breakdown, so ask about stages and timelines directly.
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