Senior Software Engineer

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Autodesk’s Data Platform is building the next generation of data infrastructure, AI native, scalable, and developer-friendly systems that power analytics, AI, real-time insights, and customer-facing experiences across Autodesk.

To power this vision, we are hiringsoftware engineers who build platforms . You are someone who learns quickly, moves decisively, and takes ownership of complex systems. You enjoy solving hard distributed systems problems, writing production-grade code, automating everything, and turning ambiguity into scalable architecture.

You will design and build APIs, streaming systems, control planes, automation frameworks, and developer-facing platform capabilities that enable thousands of engineers and data practitioners across Autodesk.

This is a high-impact engineering role with real architectural ownership.

• Design and develop scalable APIs and microservices (REST, GraphQL, event-driven)
• Build backend services using modern languages such as Go, Java, or Python
• Develop full-stack capabilities when needed (React, micro-frontends) to enable platform usability
• Architect and implement distributed systems that process millions of records across batch and real-time pipelines
• Build and evolve streaming and ingestion systems using Kafka and Flink
• Develop control-plane services for orchestration, workflow management, and metadata-driven automation
• Design self-service infrastructure abstractions for storage, compute, and workflow provisioning

• Build highly available, fault-tolerant distributed systems
• Define SLAs/SLIs and drive observability across platform services
• Implement strong testing, CI/CD, and modern, cloud-native practices
• Drive performance optimization and system efficiency
• Participate in on-call rotations and take operational ownership seriously

• Identify manual processes and replace them with resilient automation
• Build intelligent workflow orchestration and scheduling systems
• Improve deployment pipelines and reduce operational overhead
• Leverage AI/LLMs and modern tooling to accelerate engineering productivity

• Partner with product managers, architects, data engineers, and ML teams to translate business needs into scalable systems
• Contribute to architectural direction and technical strategy
• Mentor engineers and raise the engineering bar through code reviews and design discussions
• Promote engineering best practices, documentation discipline, and long-term maintainability

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building production systems
• Strong programming skills in Go, Java, or Python
• Proven experience designing and building distributed systems or microservices architectures
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
• Experience building and consuming APIs (REST, GraphQL, event-driven)
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, containerization, and cloud native infrastructure
• Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies quickly and apply them effectively
• Ownership mindset: you build it, you run it, you improve it

• Experience with streaming technologies (Kafka, Flink)
• Experience with big data ecosystems (Spark, Trino/Presto, Hive, EMR)
• Experience building data platforms, storage systems, or orchestration engines (Airflow, Temporal)
• Familiarity with data modeling, schema design, and large-scale data processing
• Experience implementing observability and monitoring frameworks
• Background in building developer platforms or internal tooling

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