Job Requisition ID #
25WD88224
Position Overview
Autodesk’s Platform Services and Emerging Technologies team is looking for a passionate and highly motivated Senior Principal Software Engineer to join our team. The team delivers high-value, exabyte-scale and cloud data platform components powering desktop, mobile, and web products. This enables our product teams to build cohesive in-product data experiences, our partners to integrate and expand our data, and our end-users to work with their data across all Autodesk products.
You will play a significant role in building core components and services, which power Autodesk SaaS applications in industries of manufacturing, architecture, engineering and construction, media and entertainment with efficient and flexible data management capabilities. This is an opportunity to work on applications which directly influence over 10 million professionals in 185 countries, using Autodesk products to save time and money, gain competitive advantage, and change the way ideas are brought to life.
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of and to help evolve the engineering discipline in a lean/Agile environment and to contribute to an organization committed to continuous improvement. You will be a central part of the team who creates amazing things and will learn from some of the best in the industry! Our team enables real-time data-centric experiences at scale to make a difference for all of those who imagine, design, and make our world. Join us to make anything!
This role is hybrid, and the office location is downtown Toronto. Autodesk supports FLEX working model.

Responsibilities

• Lead key business outcome and high stakes initiatives which may impact an entire division or functional area
• Collaborate with architects, senior leadership, and stakeholders to achieve alignment and provide influence beyond the direct organization
• Own the design and development of cloud services or large-scale platforms
• Provide thought leadership and works on broader organization projects requiring understanding of wider business goals
• Keep aware of emerging threats and opportunities for Autodesk in the product data and cloud platform areas, and influence direction accordingly
• Initiate, lead and own the development and implementation of effective technical strategies
• Drive engineering vision and best practices, either customized for a specific domain or a large and complex platform
• Navigate the dual role of hands-on code contributor across multiple platforms within the domain, while concurrently providing pivotal technical leadership and architectural guidance
• Proactively identify and implement tools, patterns, and frameworks that enhance the overarching development process and amplify the overall engineering efficiency and quality
• Exercise strong leadership in production incidents, driving the investigation, timely resolution, and improvements required.
• Influence the direction and priorities of development teams, balancing system improvements with architectural roadmaps and requirements from product management
• Mentor and lead developers across the organization, and create opportunities to share knowledge

Minimum Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience
• 12+ years of software design, development, and/or consulting experience in cloud systems or web services, with at least 7 years in a team leadership or principal/staff-level IC role
• 12+ years of production-level hands-on Java development experience (ideally 7+ years with Java 8 and above)
• Hands-on experience with AWS (or other cloud provider’s) technologies such as ECS, SQS, S3, DynamoDB, IAM, Lambda, etc
• Hands-on experience with RESTful APIs
• Experience using Terraform (or other Infrastructure as Code alternatives)
• Strong understanding of design patterns and software architecture principles
• Demonstrated experience leading complex, large-scale cloud projects involving multiple teams
• Mastery of software development lifecycle (SDLC) processes, tools, and Agile methodologies
• Proven ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams and stakeholders
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to lead technical discussions and present complex ideas to diverse audiences
• Experience building scalable systems and services in the cloud, within Microservice and/or Serverless architectures
• Experience in building, running and monitoring high-stakes Production cloud SaaS applications & environments at large scale
• Track record of mentoring and developing technical talent within the organization
• Experience with multi-repo GIT code bases, REST-based web services, testing frameworks such as Blazemeter, shell scripts, automated CI/CD pipelines

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience with DevOps tooling (Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Git, Artifactory, Spinnaker)
• Strong experience with real-time messaging systems (SQS/SNS, PubNub, AppSync, and similar)
• Experience with major refactoring projects
• Experience with Test-Driven-Development (TDD)

The Ideal Candidate

• Exhibits ownership of platform and its subsystems
• Team-player, with a result-focused passion to deliver solutions
• Strong troubleshooting and problem solving skills
• Embraces perpetual learning and is always ready for a new challenge
• Not only are you comfortable presenting demos of working software, but also addressing questions about progress

Learn More
About Autodesk
Welcome to Autodesk! Amazing things are created every day with our software – from the greenest buildings and cleanest cars to the smartest factories and biggest hit movies. We help innovators turn their ideas into reality, transforming not only how things are made, but what can be made.
We take great pride in our culture here at Autodesk – it’s at the core of everything we do. Our culture guides the way we work and treat each other, informs how we connect with customers and partners, and defines how we show up in the world.
When you’re an Autodesker, you can do meaningful work that helps build a better world designed and made for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!
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• Lead key business outcome and high stakes initiatives which may impact an entire division or functional area
• Collaborate with architects, senior leadership, and stakeholders to achieve alignment and provide influence beyond the direct organization
• Own the design and development of cloud services or large-scale platforms
• Provide thought leadership and works on broader organization projects requiring understanding of wider business goals
• Keep aware of emerging threats and opportunities for Autodesk in the product data and cloud platform areas, and influence direction accordingly
• Initiate, lead and own the development and implementation of effective technical strategies
• Drive engineering vision and best practices, either customized for a specific domain or a large and complex platform
• Navigate the dual role of hands-on code contributor across multiple platforms within the domain, while concurrently providing pivotal technical leadership and architectural guidance
• Proactively identify and implement tools, patterns, and frameworks that enhance the overarching development process and amplify the overall engineering efficiency and quality
• Exercise strong leadership in production incidents, driving the investigation, timely resolution, and improvements required.
• Influence the direction and priorities of development teams, balancing system improvements with architectural roadmaps and requirements from product management
• Mentor and lead developers across the organization, and create opportunities to share knowledg