Principal Backend Software Developer, Autodesk

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong backend engineering experience building and operating production services at scale
• Deep experience with distributed systems, microservices, event-driven architecture, real-time or near-real-time data processing, and cloud-native design
• Proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Java, Python, Go, Kotlin, or similar
• Hands-on experience with AWS services such as Lambda, Fargate, ECS, SQS, SNS,
• DynamoDB, Aurora, API Gateway, CloudWatch, or related cloud technologies
• Proven ability to design systems for high availability, low latency, fault tolerance, data consistency, and multi-region resilience
• Experience owning production systems, including observability, incident response, root-cause analysis, and reliability improvements
• Strong technical judgment and ability to make pragmatic trade-offs across architecture, delivery speed, operational risk, cost, and long-term maintainability
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders across teams
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and act as a technical multiplier

Desirable

• Autodesk is transforming how customers access, consume, and pay for the products that help them design and make the world around us. We are building a next-generation usage-based billing platform that will power Autodesk’s consumption-based business model at global scale
• We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to help lead the architecture, execution, and operational excellence of this platform
• This is a senior individual contributor role for an engineer who has built and operated distributed systems in production, understands the trade-offs behind scalable architecture, and wants to solve business-critical problems with deep technical rigor
• You will work on real-time, event-driven systems that process product usage, support billing workflows, and enable reliable customer experiences across Autodesk’s global portfolio
• You will influence system design, technical strategy, engineering practices, and cross-team execution while remaining close to the code
• This is not a narrow feature-delivery role. It is an opportunity to shape a foundational commerce platform for Autodesk, raise the engineering bar, and help build systems where correctness, reliability, latency, cost efficiency, and operability all matter
• At Autodesk, platform teams are expected to drive measurable outcomes, reduce friction for product teams, and enable stronger execution across the portfolios
• Work on a business-critical platform that directly enables Autodesk’s shift toward consumption-based models
• Design and operate high-scale distributed systems where correctness and reliability are essential
• Own problems end to end, from architecture and implementation through production operations and continuous improvement
• Collaborate with product, finance, commerce, platform, data, and engineering teams across Autodesk
• Use modern cloud-native architecture, event-driven patterns, observability, and Agentic engineering practices to move faster without compromising quality
• Mentor strong engineers and influence technical direction beyond your immediate team
• Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of secure, scalable, maintainable backend systems for Autodesk’s global usage-based billing platform
• Build and optimize distributed services, event-driven workflows, APIs, and data-processing pipelines that support real-time usage capture, rating, billing, reconciliation, and downstream integrations
• Write high-quality, secure, testable production code in Java, Python, Go, or similar languages
• Use AI-assisted development tools responsibly to improve engineering velocity, code quality, testing, documentation, and operational readiness
• Own critical service-level outcomes, including SLOs, SLIs, observability, alerting, resilience, incident readiness, and post-incident improvements
• Drive technical design reviews, code reviews, architecture documents, and operational readiness reviews
• Identify and resolve complex performance, scalability, correctness, reliability, and cost-efficiency challenges
• Partner with product managers, engineering managers, architects, finance systems, commerce teams, and other platform teams to translate business goals into durable technical solutions
• Contribute to the technical roadmap, including platform modernization, technical debt reduction, migration strategy, and long-term architectural direction
• Improve engineering practices across the team, including testing strategy, release safety, deployment automation, security posture, and production support
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, helping the team make better architectural decisions and operate more effectively