Senior Data Engineer

Position Overview

Autodesk is looking for a Senior Software Data Engineer to join the Data Ingestion team within the Analytics Data organization.

The Enterprise Data Integration (EDI) team is a collection of systems and integrations focused on servicing the enterprise data needs of all data scientists, data analysts and data engineers throughout the organization.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for developing best practices and making architectural choices to rapidly improve critical data processing & analytics pipelines. You will collaborate with highly motivated and wonderful software engineers. You will lead and support innovative solutions to sophisticated and modern engineering problems. As part of the team, you will learn, teach, grow, and help bring data closer to our users. You will make critical choices, tackle hard problems and improve the platform’s reliability, resiliency, and scalability.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the team’s vision and articulate strategies to have fundamental impact at our massive scale
• You will need a product-focused mindset. It is essential for you to understand business requirements and architect systems that will scale and extend to accommodate those needs
• Diagnose and solve complex problems in distributed systems, develop and document technical solutions and sequence work to make fast, iterative deliveries and improvements
• Build and maintain high-performance, fault-tolerant and scalable distributed systems that can handle our massive scale
• Ideate and drive innovative projects that will improve user experience
• Provide solid leadership within your very own problem space, through data-driven approach, robust software designs, and effective delegation
• Participate in, or spearhead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to adopt what’s best suited amongst available technologies.
• Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• Automate cloud infrastructure, services, and observability
• Develop CI/CD pipelines and testing automation
• Establish and uphold best engineering practices through thorough code and design reviews and improved processes and tools
• Groom junior engineers through mentoring and delegation
• Drive a culture of trust, respect and inclusion within your team.
   

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant industry experience in large back-end distributed systems and cloud computing.
• Strong overall programming skills, able to write modular, maintainable code, preferably Python & SQL
• Experience with Spark & Airflow Mandatory
• Experience building code-driven infrastructure on public cloud platforms, preferably AWS
• Understanding of SQL, dimensional modeling, and at least one relational database
• Experience with automation frameworks/tools like Git, Jenkins, Ansible, and Terraform
• Familiarity with containers and infrastructure-as-code fundamentals
• Solid Proficiency with Amazon Web Services
• Problem solver with excellent written and interpersonal skills; ability to make sound, complex recommendations in a fast-paced, technical environment
• Humble, collaborative, team player, willing to step up and support your colleague
• Effective communication, problem solving and interpersonal skills

• Commit to grow deeper in the knowledge and understanding of how to improve our existing applications
• Enthusiasm for cutting edge technologies, complex problems, and building things
• Familiar with non-functional testing such as load, performance and resiliency testing
• Good command of English (Speaking, Writing and Reading)
• Working in an agile environment using test driven methodologies.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent training, fellowship or work experience
   

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with data processing and SQL databases
• Experience with Hadoop / Spark Source Code
• Experience with Map Reduce
• Experience with Hive and/or Snowflake
• Strong knowledge and experience in Hadoop 2.0 and its ecosystem.
• Experience with Airflow
• Experience with data processing and SQL databases and DBT
• Experience in microservices based architecture

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