Principal Engineer, API

Principal Engineer

As a global leader in 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software, Autodesk helps people imagine, design, and make a better world. Autodesk accelerates better design through an unparalleled depth of experience and a broad portfolio of software to give customers the power to solve their design, business, and environmental challenges.

This is an exciting time to join us on our multi-year journey to disrupt the Design to Manufacture world with Fusion 360 by delivering unprecedented value and converging workflows with cloud-based technology. We are rapidly combining many world leading technologies and teams into the Fusion 360 family.

The role is in the Platform Organization within the Product Design and Manufacturing Solutions division. This team defines and builds the software platform which the Fusion 360 family of products is built upon. We are looking for an ambitious and self-driven Principal Engineer to help us fulfil the mission of the organization, which is to drive developer productivity, increase automation opportunities and enable cross platform device independence.

Responsibilities

• Work on making the changes to the Fusion 360 platform to separate core services from the UI layer and create a true server layer that can be deployed to the cloud (note that our code base is mostly written in C++)
• Optimize the start-up time of the server and enable authentication with our Identity service
• Drive developer productivity by adding to the Fusion 360 APIs
• Design, implement, test and maintain these and other features for Fusion 360 based on stakeholder requirements
• Write technical design documents, participate in design and code reviews, develop estimates for tasks and document code
• Work with an extended team of software developers, QAs and product designers in the US and other worldwide engineering sites
• Mentor junior engineers on the team and act as a technical lead in areas of your expertise
• Work with Dev Ops to support production services in an on-call rotation and be an escalation contact for service incidents

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional C++ programming experience
• Current knowledge of C++ standards and specifications
• Outstanding programming, debugging and problem-solving skills
• Strong Object-Oriented programming and problem-solving skills
• Knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and STL
• Significant experience with Authentication and Access Management
• Ability to work well in a team to deliver on team goals
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with developing code for Fusion 360
• Experience with API and SDK development
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (EC2, RDS, VPC, IAM)
• Experience with Docker and container orchestration systems (AWS ECS, DCOS, Kubernetes)
• Familiar with cross-platform application development using Visual Studio development environment on Windows and XCode on the MacOS
• Experience with Scrum methodology
• Python scripting experience
• Ability to learn large software systems quickly

At Autodesk, we're building a diverse workplace and an inclusive culture to give more people the chance to imagine, design, and make a better world. 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.