Senior Principal Developer

Position Overview

Are you excited by solving technical challenges that come with building a scalable, highly available platform in a microservices environment used by millions of users worldwide? Come join us at Autodesk!

Autodesk's Platform Services and Emerging Technologies group is seeking a talented Senior Principal Developer to join our team of diverse, smart, and driven engineers who are responsible for building the Project Administration platform under Admin Access and Insights. Our platform is at the forefront of the company’s strategic investment and has tremendous visibility and impact across Autodesk.

To advance the platform’s capabilities and strengthen partnerships across product teams, we require the technical leadership of a Senior Principal Developer. This role will serve as the driving force in fostering collaboration, leading software and architectural design, and elevating engineering practices within the platform. This role will act as a key multiplier for the team’s impact.

This senior technical leader will contribute as both a hands-on code contributor across multiple platforms and as a strategic architect, providing technical direction and architectural guidance. Given the nature of the cross-industry collaboration and the need for real-time partnership engagement, this role will be having a huge business impact on key deliverables

Responsibilities

• Work closely with architects and technical product managers to translate overall system architecture and product requirements into well-designed and implemented software components
• Take ownership of the implementation of platform components, with high emphasis on quality, test-driven development, and sound software engineering practices
• Participate in software design reviews, you conduct peer code reviews, and provide input and feedback to other members of the development team
• Design and Build scalable, available, resilient, secure micro-services and customer-facing applications on AWS Cloud
• Work in a CI/CD Cloud environment, considering the implementation of functionality through several distributed components and services
• Monitor metrics and identify ways to improve telemetry gathering, reporting, and alerting
• Assist in the operation of our production systems and ensure operational aspects are considered in the day-to-day engineering work
• Collaborate inside and outside the team
• You enjoy working closely with others – learning and helping others by sharing expertise and encouraging best practices and high technical standards

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience
• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or related technical field
• Experience in both client-side and server-side architecture and programming
• A strong background in fostering a culture of continuous delivery, automation and agile development
• A deep understanding of the value of testing to deliver high-quality code
• Broad knowledge of AWS, server programming, databases, and cloud architectures
• Familiarity with full-stack architectural patterns such as micro-frontends and backend-for-frontend
• Experience with delivering highly available, scalable, distributed systems and microservices in a production setting
• Expertise in full-stack development ideally using JavaScript based technologies such as Node.js
• Extensive experience with web development using JavaScript technologies such as React (or similar), Node.js and related UI frameworks
• Proficiency with the design, implementation, deployment and operation of scalable API services

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in production with AWS Cloud services (e.g. S3, SNS, SQS, API Gateway) and Serverless infrastructure
• Experience working with relational databases and/or NoSQL (e.g. AWS Aurora, DynamoDB)
• Experience working with event-driven services
• Experience with building observability into services and infrastructure (e.g. CloudWatch, Splunk, Grafana)
• Experience with caching technologies (e.g. Redis, Cassandra)
• Experience with CI/CD practices and tools (e.g. Jenkins, Spinnaker, Docker)
• Understanding of common authentication/authorization methodologies and protocols
• Strong communication and collaboration skills - you are pragmatic and know how to build trust

Learn More / Plus d'information

About Autodesk / À propos d’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!

Salary transparency / Transparence salariale

Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location. In addition to base salaries, our compensation package may include annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.