Autodesk

Autodesk

Principal Engineer, Platform Services

San Francisco, CA, USA · Principal

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 16 days ago
JavaDistributed SystemsRedisDynamoDBAWSCloud PlatformsCI/CDJenkinsGrafanaAPI DevelopmentRESTKafkaSparkData EngineeringIncident ResponseAgileLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingMentoring

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About the role

  • The team provides high-value, exabyte-scale orchestrated data processing capabilities that power desktop, mobile, and web applications.
  • These capabilities enable our product teams to achieve high-performance processing of granular data across all Autodesk products.

Responsibilities

  • Lead all aspects of software development, creating and maintaining reliable, secure, scalable, and high-traffic services by leveraging modern cloud technologies
  • Drive team-level outcomes and initiatives, collaborating across functions to achieve organizational goals
  • Design and evolve real-time, event-driven data streaming pipelines, ensuring high-throughput, low-latency, and fault-tolerant delivery of data across systems
  • Collaborate with architects, product managers, and stakeholders to iteratively transform high-level requirements into incremental product enhancements
  • Shape software design and architecture by incorporating cloud expertise throughout the development lifecycle, improving performance, team processes, and collaboration
  • Take ownership of large-scale platforms, overseeing engineering practices, solution design, quality, deployment, and ongoing support
  • Drive improvements in engineering practices, acting as a multiplier for the team through mentorship, technical guidance, and proactive support
  • Lead technical discussions across the organization, aligning outcomes with business objectives
  • Provide technical mentorship to team members and peers, offering expertise in design, architecture, and coding practices
  • Thoroughly document and present solutions to stakeholders, ensuring clarity and alignment

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Expert-level proficiency in Java with extensive development experience
  • Strong, hands-on expertise with AWS cloud services, including S3, Lambda, SQS/SNS, Aurora, DynamoDB, and other core offerings
  • Strong problem-solving capabilities and experience working on complex, distributed systems
  • Experienced in Agile development environments, with a proven ability to adapt to dynamic team structures
  • Proven leadership in incident response, including driving root cause analysis and implementing preventive measures
  • Strong background in API development (REST) with experience in designing and implementing robust solutions

Nice to have

  • Hands-on experience with Apache Flink or another stream processing engine for real-time, stateful data pipelines
  • Strong familiarity with CI/CD concepts and hands-on experience with deployment pipelines, such as Jenkins
  • Hands-on experience with observability tools, including Dynatrace, Splunk, and Grafana, to ensure system reliability and performance
  • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with experience collaborating across dispersed, multicultural teams to successfully deliver projects and lead initiatives when required
  • A lifelong learner who continually explores new and improved ways of working, and confidently shares innovative ideas with the engineering team
  • 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.

Compensation

  • Salary transparency
  • Salary is one part of Autodesk's competitive compensation package.
  • For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $139,000 and $249,260.

Benefits

  • From health and financial benefits to time away and everyday wellness, we give Autodeskers the best, so they can do their best work.
  • Learn more about our benefits in the U.S. by visiting https://benefits.autodesk.com/
  • In addition to base salaries, our compensation package may include annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Company info

  • We take great pride in our culture here at Autodesk - it's at the core of everything we do.
  • Autodesk is looking for a Principal Engineer to join the Autodesk Platform Services Team.
  • This is an exciting opportunity to be part of and to help evolve developing the engineering discipline in an Agile environment and to contribute to an organization committed to continuous improvement.
  • You will be 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.

Equal opportunity

  • Autodesk is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic.
  • We also consider for employment all qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.
  • We take pride in cultivating a culture of belonging where everyone can thrive.
  • Learn more here: https://www.autodesk.com/company/global-belonging
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