Principal Software Engineer

Autodesk

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: Atlanta, GA
Employment: Full-time
Posted: 74 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Autodesk is a global leader in 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software, enabling users to imagine, design, and create a better world.

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TL;DR · Principal Software Engineer

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The Principal Software Engineer joins the Digital Experience Engineering team to provide deep technical leadership for a large-scale data platform. In this role, you will turn complex requirements into scalable architectures, owning high-level design decisions that span multiple systems and teams. You will be responsible for setting technical directions for core subsystems, designing distributed services, and managing data models with a focus on concurrency and integrity. Your daily work involves leading cross-team initiatives, mentoring engineers through design reviews, and establishing engineering standards. You must demonstrate expertise in modern backend languages, public cloud platforms, serverless compute, NoSQL storage, and event-driven integration. The role specifically addresses the technical challenges of building high-throughput data pipelines, ETL processes, and extensible integration patterns for heterogeneous data sources.

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Skills

Distributed Systems Data Pipelines NoSQL Object Storage Serverless API Design ETL DevOps Search Relevance Schema Validation

What you'll do

Set the technical direction for core platform subsystems and drive architectural alignment across teams.
Translate ambiguous product requirements into concrete platform capabilities and documented engineering tradeoffs.
Design and review complex changes to distributed services, data models, and concurrency.
Lead cross-team initiatives to resolve systemic issues in reliability, performance, and developer productivity.
Establish engineering standards and coach engineers across teams on their adoption.
Partner with senior leadership on platform strategy, capacity planning, and incident response.
Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and architecture deep dives.

What we're looking for

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
8+ years of professional software development experience, including designing and operating distributed backend systems in production.
Strong proficiency in a modern backend language and experience building libraries or frameworks for other engineering teams.
Experience designing and operating asynchronous or workflow-based systems at production scale.
Strong experience with a major public cloud platform, including serverless compute, NoSQL, object storage, and event-driven integration.
Expertise in API design and implementation, including schema validation, versioning, and backwards compatibility.
Demonstrated ability to design data models and drive system behavior from configuration.
Track record of leading architecture across multiple teams and influencing technical direction through written design documents.