Vice President, Cloud Engineering

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: The Vice President of Cloud Engineering will oversee the strategy, development, and execution of our cloud platform's technical roadmap. This role will lead a team of engineers to design, build, and maintain a highly reliable, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure, integrating abstraction layers over public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP). The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in cloud architecture, Kubernetes, control planes, networking, storage, and CI/CD pipelines, with a proven track record of leading high-performing engineering teams in a fast-paced environment. This position is a people manager role reporting to the GVP, Cloud & Production Engineering.

Responsibilities:

• Define and execute the technical vision and strategy for the cloud platform, aligning with business objectives and customer needs
• Lead, mentor, and grow a diverse team of engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence
• Oversee the design and implementation of the cloud platform, including control planes, Kubernetes orchestration, networking, storage, and CI/CD pipelines
• Drive the development of abstraction layers that simplify and optimize interactions with underlying cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Ensure the platform is highly available, scalable, and secure, meeting enterprise-grade performance and compliance requirements
• Partner with product management, operations, and other stakeholders to prioritize features, define requirements, and deliver customer-centric solutions
• Stay ahead of industry trends, evaluating and integrating new technologies, tools, and frameworks to enhance the platform's capabilities
• Implement best practices for DevOps, monitoring, and incident response to ensure robust platform operations
• Manage engineering budgets, resources, and vendor relationships to optimize delivery and cost efficiency

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 15+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 5 years in a senior leadership role (e.g., Director, VP) overseeing cloud infrastructure or platform teams
• Experience building and scaling cloud platforms on AWS, Azure, or GCP, with knowledge of Kubernetes, control planes, networking, and storage systems
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and DevOps practices
• Experience leading the development of abstraction layers or platform services that simplify complex cloud environments
• Experience and understanding of cloud architecture, microservices, and containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
• Expertise in networking (VPC, load balancing, DNS) and storage solutions