Principal Software Development Engineer, Autodesk
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3D design, engineering & entertainment software
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3D design, engineering & entertainment software
1001+ employees
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1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower innovators with design and make technology so they can achieve the new possible.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- Direct, hands-on experience managing, configuring, or extending CI/CD Pipelines
- Experience contributing to open-source projects, particularly related to cloud-native or CI/CD tooling
- Strong AWS expertise
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes operations and management
- Experience building and supporting internal developer platforms or tools
- Familiarity with multi-region cloud application architectures and deployment strategies
- Experience with GitOps workflows
What the job involves
- 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 reliability, and drive adoption across Autodesk
- If you're excited about building robust developer platforms, automating complex workflows, and working with 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
Our take
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.
Over 100 million people use Autodesk software, across many different industries and applications – in some of which it remains nearly irreplaceable. The company has an impressive history of diversification, which it continues to this day. For example, the 2022 acquisition of Moxion, a cloud-based platform for digital dailies used by leading filmmakers, bolstered the company’s offerings for the media and entertainment industry.
The rise of AR and VR technologies is driving modern growth in the computer-aided design market, creating space for Autodesk to expand further. On top of this, a recent shift to the popular SaaS model puts the company in an opportunistic position to seek further success.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
San Rafael, CA
Leadership
Andrew Anagnost
(CEO & President, not founder)Has worked at the company since 1997, including as CMO and Senior Vice President of Business Strategy and Marketing. Became CEO in 2017.
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