Principal Engineer for Foundational Services

Autodesk makes software for people who make things. If you’ve ever driven a high-performance car, admired a towering skyscraper, used a smartphone, or watched a great film, chances are you’ve experienced what millions of Autodesk customers are doing with our software. Autodesk gives you the power to make anything.

Autodesk is seeking a motivated and experienced Principal Software Engineer to join our cloud platform group. You will be part of a team that is responsible for building and scaling up our foundational services that are used by almost all the products in the company.

• Work in an agile environment collaborating with the team to deliver quality software in quick iterations
• Apply continuous attention to technical excellence and good design principles resulting in a scalable, reliable, performant, and maintainable software
• Work closely with product owners and team to understand requirements, design and develop scalable solutions using best practices
• Participate in code reviews to ensure new code conforms to highest standards
• Mentor and guide junior engineers

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
• 8+ years of strong software engineering experience with a focus in distributed, highly parallel systems
• Strong object-oriented programming and design experience in Java.
• Experience working with microservices.
• Practical experience of building consuming RESTful web services, JSON.
• Practical experience with version control systems such as Git.
• Possess strong verbal and written communication skills
• Possess strong analytical skills with excellent problem solving abilities
• Must be extremely detail-oriented with respect to documentation and communication

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Agile/Scrum, continuous integration/delivery, and modern development practices
• Experience integrating with application performance management systems like Dynatrace, New Relic, Appdynamics etc. and reviewing applications for troubleshooting and performance optimizations
• Experience developing with logging and monitoring platforms like Splunk, ELK stack, etc.
• Experience with developing code using RDBMS, NoSQL databases
• Experience with Amazon Web Services