Principal Engineering Manager, API Gateway

Principal Engineering Manager, API Gateway

Posted on 08/13/2026

Location

Bellevue, WA

Description

Job# MJ-1763

Own the technical vision and roadmap for the API Gateway, ensuring it evolves with UiPath’s product scale and AI strategy. Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team, fostering a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and ownership. Balance hands-on technical contribution, strategic planning, and people leadership. Partner cross-functionally with platform, security, and product teams to deliver a secure, extensible, and intelligent gateway platform. Lead and Manage a High-Performing Team: Build, mentor, and manage a team of talented AI/Software engineers, fostering their growth, performance, and career development. Actively participate in hiring, onboarding, and retaining top engineering talent, continuously raising the bar for the team and UiPath Engineering. Drive Technical Strategy and Roadmap Execution: Own and drive the technical roadmap for the API Gateway and related platform capabilities, ensuring alignment with emerging AI protocols and enterprise-grade reliability. Lead the team in architecting, designing, developing, and operating large-scale, reliable, and efficient cloud services, particularly AI-driven components. Ensure the team's technical strategy aligns with broader platform goals and business needs, making informed trade-offs between short-term delivery and long-term technical health. Manage Deliverables and Execution: Take full ownership of your team's software deliverables, ensuring they meet high standards of quality, security, scalability, performance, and maintainability. Implement and refine agile processes, define clear "done" criteria, and manage project timelines, risks, and dependencies effectively. Negotiate effectively with other engineering teams to manage dependencies, align on technical interfaces, secure resources, and ensure smooth cross-team collaboration. Maintain Technical Excellence and Hands-on Contribution: Stay deeply technical, guiding the team through complex architectural decisions, design reviews, and technical challenges. Actively contribute to engineering work items, potentially including hands-on coding for critical components, complex debugging, or prototyping new concepts. Champion and continuously improve engineering best practices (CI/CD, testing, security, IaC, operational excellence) within your team and influence adoption across wider groups. Drive root cause analysis for production issues, ensuring robust solutions and continuous improvement in system reliability and performance. Foster Innovation and Collaboration: Incubate new ideas, stay abreast of emerging technologies (especially in AI/GenAI, LLMs, RAG), and drive their adoption where relevant. Communicate technical concepts, team strategy, and project status effectively across diverse audiences, including senior leadership. Build strong relationships and trust across teams and geographies. 

REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science or related. Five (5) years of progressive work experience in software development. Employer will accept a Master’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science or related and three (3) years of work experience in software development in lieu of a Bachelor's degree or equivalent and five (5) years of progressive work experience as described above. Work experience to include: Three (3) years of experience managing software engineering teams, including hiring and performance management; Three (3) years of experience leading geographically distributed software engineering teams across multiple locations and time zones; Three (3) years of experience designing, building, and operating production cloud services on Azure and/or AWS, including delivery of RESTful web services; Three (3) years of experience improving production service availability and reliability with measurable outcomes specifically, achieving or sustaining 99.9% or higher availability; Three (3) years of experience leading incident response and post-incident root cause analysis for production services, including implementation of corrective and preventive actions; Three (3) years of experience developing backend services using C# or Java, including SQL development; Three (3) years of experience designing and operating cloud-based data storage and messaging components, including SQL/NoSQL databases and message queues (Cosmos DB, Azure SQL, or Azure Queue); Three (3) years of experience building large scale, high availability distributed systems. Any and all experience may be gained concurrently.

Salary range: $218,625/yr. - $311,375/yr. 

Base salary ranges may vary by geographic location and relevant experience, education, certifications, and seniority as compared to others doing substantially similar work. There is no guarantee an offer will be at the top of the posted range based on the salary analysis. UiPath offers a competitive benefits package, description of all benefits and other compensation available at:

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