Principal Software Development Engineer, Autodesk

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, OR equivalent practical experience
• Proven experience with 8+ years in a Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, or related role. As a Principal engineer, you must have demonstrated tech lead experience leading projects and other engineers
• Solid understanding of CI/CD principles and hands-on experience with relevant tools (e.g., Spinnaker, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Argo CD, Argo Workflows)
• Experience working with at least one major public cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Proficiency in scripting and/or programming languages (e.g., Python, Go, Java)
• Hands-on experience with containerisation (Docker) and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, Datadog, ELK Stack)
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Desirable

• Join the team building the core infrastructure that powers Autodesk's cloud services. You'll be working on CloudOS, our cutting-edge Continuous Deployment (CD) platform used extensively by our internal cloud engineering teams. As a central component of the Autodesk Cloud Developer Platform, Cloudos simplifies and standardises how teams provision and manage their front-end, back-end, and infrastructure components across multiple global regions
• We are seeking a talented and passionate Platform Engineer to join the CloudOS team.
• In this role, you will be instrumental in designing, building, operating, and scaling the CloudOS platform.
• You will work closely with internal engineering teams to understand their deployment needs, enhance the platform's capabilities, ensure its reliability, and drive adoption across Autodesk.
• If you're excited about building robust developer platforms, automating complex workflows, and working with on the public cloud using Container services like ECS and EKS at scale, this is the role for you. We’re primarily an AWS shop but have workloads on Azure and GCP
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance features and capabilities within the CloudOS platform
• Manage and operate the underlying infrastructure for CloudOS, focusing on reliability, scalability, security, and cost-efficiency (leveraging technologies like Kubernetes, AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Work extensively with Jenkins/Spinnaker: configuration, management, upgrades, and potentially contributing improvements upstream or developing custom extensions
• Develop automation for provisioning, deployment, monitoring, and operational tasks using scripting (e.g., Python, Go, Java) and Infrastructure-as-Code tools (e.g., Terraform)
• Collaborate with internal application teams (our customers) to understand their CI/CD requirements, provide support, troubleshoot issues, and evangelize best practices for using CloudOS
• Implement and manage monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to ensure platform health and performance
• Contribute to technical documentation, runbooks, and knowledge sharing within the team and for platform users
• Stay current with industry trends and advancements in CI/CD, cloud-native technologies, DevOps, and platform engineering
• Participate in an on-call rotation to support the CloudOS platform

Autodesk supplies software that enables teams to collaborate, design, simulate, and fabricate their ideas in 3D, serving a range of industries such as engineering, product design, and entertainment. Founded in 1982, the company first delivered the AutoCAD system, a commercial computer-aided design and drafting software application, that is still seeing updated releases to this day.