Senior Software Engineer

and help bring data closer to our users. You will make critical choices, tackle hard problems and improve the platform's reliability, resiliency, and scalability.

We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic about working in a team, can own and deliver long-term projects to completion. You are detail and quality oriented, and excited about the prospects of having a big impact with data at Autodesk.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the team's vision and articulate strategies to have fundamental impact at our massive scale

• You will need a platform mindset. It is essential for you to understand business requirements and architect systems that will scale and extend to the platform vision and accommodate user needs

• Diagnose and solve complex problems in distributed systems, develop and document technical solutions and sequence work to make fast, iterative deliveries and improvements

• Build and maintain high-performance, fault-tolerant and scalable systems that can handle our massive scale

• Design, develop, and maintain APIs for the platform that are secure, scalable, and highly available.

• Ideate and drive innovative projects that will improve user experience

• Provide solid leadership within your very own problem space, through data-driven approach, robust software designs, and effective delegation

• Participate in or spearhead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to adopt what's best suited amongst available technologies.

• Review code developed by other developers and provided feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency)

• Automate cloud infrastructure, services, and observability

• Develop CI/CD pipelines and testing automation

• Establish and uphold best engineering practices through thorough code and design reviews and improved processes and tools

• Groom junior engineers through mentoring and delegation

• Drive a culture of trust, respect and inclusion within your team

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years of relevant industry experience in large back-end distributed systems and cloud computing

• Strong overall programming skills, able to write modular, maintainable code, preferably Java, Python & SQL

• Experience building code-driven infrastructure on public cloud platforms, preferably AWS

• Understanding of SQL

• Design, develop, and maintain RESTful APIs.

• Collaborate with product, frontend, and backend teams to define API requirements.

• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code.

• Experience with automation frameworks/tools like Git, Jenkins and Terraform

• Familiarity with containers and infrastructure-as-code fundamentals

• Problem solver with excellent written and interpersonal skills; ability to make sound, complex recommendations in a fast-paced, technical environment

• Effective communication, problem solving and interpersonal skills

• Familiar with non-functional testing such as load, performance and resiliency testing

• Good command of English (Speaking, Writing and Reading)

• Working in an agile environment using test driven methodologies

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent training, fellowship or work experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong debugging, problem-solving, and communication skills.

• Experience with Data processing, preferable Streaming

• Strong proficiency in programming languages like Java, Python, NodeJS. (Preferred Java)

• Experience with RESTful APIs and microservices

• Experience with cloud platforms (Preferred AWS)

• Experience with SQL

• Hands-on experience with databases (SQL/NoSQL).

• Understanding of Spark

• Understanding of Airflow

• Experience with version control (Git) and CI/CD pipelines

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