Principal Software Engineer, Backend

Autodesk

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Work type: Remote
Location: CA
Employment: Full-time
Posted: 63 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, Backend

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The Principal Software Engineer - Backend joins the Enterprise Data Management organization within the COO-GET Engineering group. This senior individual contributor role focuses on driving technology direction for complex, business-critical backend and distributed systems. You will design, build, and evolve scalable services, APIs, and event-driven systems while establishing standards for schema design, versioning, and backward compatibility. Key responsibilities include leading architectural strategy, ensuring operational excellence through observability and incident response, and mentoring senior engineers. The role requires deep expertise in Python, AWS, and cloud-native architectures, including compute, storage, and messaging. You will solve technical problems related to asynchronous processing, eventual consistency, and fault tolerance within a large-scale environment involving master data management, identity resolution, and data enrichment services.

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Skills

Python AWS Distributed Systems API Design CI/CD Infrastructure as Code Kafka Kinesis Snowflake Messaging Observability Data Engineering System Design

What you'll do

Author and evolve critical backend systems and APIs to meet long-term scalability and reliability goals.
Lead the design of distributed, event-driven systems addressing consistency, failure handling, and rate limiting.
Establish and drive service and API standards across domains, including schema design and versioning strategies.
Act as a technical decision-maker for cross-team initiatives by evaluating tradeoffs and making durable architectural choices.
Drive operational excellence through observability, alerting strategies, incident response, and systemic remediation.
Reinforce engineering best practices for design reviews, code quality, testing, and CI/CD across multiple teams.
Mentor senior engineers and emerging technical leaders through influence, example, and coaching.
Translate ambiguous business problems into clear, actionable technical solutions in partnership with product and data leaders.

What we're looking for

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
10+ years of professional software engineering experience with significant depth in backend and distributed systems.
Experience building enterprise platform services consumed by many internal and/or external teams.
Experience with Python, AWS, APIs, and backend services integration.
Demonstrated expertise building and operating backend services and APIs in production environments at scale.
Strong experience with distributed systems design, including asynchronous processing, messaging, eventual consistency, and fault tolerance.
Deep hands-on experience with AWS and cloud-native architectures including compute, storage, messaging, IAM, and observability.
Strong software engineering fundamentals including system design, data modeling, API design, automated testing, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.

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