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

This role will be building a KQL -> SQL (ClickHouse) translation layer to accelerate our migration from Azure Data Explorer (Kusto) to ClickHouse for operational time-series analytics. The intern will contribute to real-time telemetry pipelines, data quality checks, and the enablement needed for anomaly-detection and forecasting services to run on ClickHouse at Docusign scale.

This is an internship role for 3 months of duration.

This position is an individual contributor role reporting to the VP, Engineering - Site Reliability.

Responsibility

• Design and implement a KQL->SQL transpiler: grammar/AST mapping, function/operator equivalence, and edge-case handling

• Build a validation harness that runs queries against ADX and ClickHouse, compares results, and reports parity/precision deltas with explainable diffs

• Publish a Python library/CLI, a "how-to migrate" playbook, and dashboards that track coverage and success metrics

• Partner with mentors to migrate a prioritized set of KQL queries used by product and platform teams into ClickHouse

• Prototype an assistive tool that suggests translations for unsupported KQL constructs and surfaces review hints (kept strictly behind manual review gates) as a stretch goal

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 in Computer Science, Data Science, Software Engineering

• Expected graduation in December 2026 or May/June 2027

• Experience with Python and SQL and familiarity with time-series analytics

• Experience with Kusto Query Language (KQL) and/or SQL

• Experience with fundamentals in parsers/compilers or DSLs (e.g., ASTs, grammar tools such as Lark/ANTLR)

Preferred

• Good written/spoken communication; crisp design docs and runbooks

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:

California: $39/hour - $51/hour 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.

EEO Statement

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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