Principal Engineer, Autodesk
SRE/DevOps
+ Discretionary annual cash bonuses + Equity
3D design, engineering & entertainment software
Posted today
3D design, engineering & entertainment software
1001+ employees
Posted today
+ Discretionary annual cash bonuses + Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower innovators with design and make technology so they can achieve the new possible.
Role
Who you are
- BS or MS in Computer Science or related technical field or relevant experience
- 9+ years of software engineering experience with proven experience in DevOps and SRE accountable for SLOs
- Hands-on experience working with AWS (Amazon Web Services) Demonstrate senior-level experience with development and deployment of AWS services, specifically S3, Lambda, SQS/SNS, and databases (Aurora, DynamoDB)
- Understand and curiosity of SRE best practices, architectures, and methods
- Experience in Continuous Delivery, deployment with Terraform
- Excellent experience in Java, python, groovy and other programming languages
- Good knowledge on resiliency patterns and cloud security
- Proficiency in using observability tools such as Grafana, Splunk, Dynatrace, DataDog, OpenTelemetry, or Prometheus
- Experience with security compliance, such as SOC2
- Hands-on experience with data streaming, transformation, and ETL technologies
- Understanding of Apache Flink, Kinesis, Kafka and Kubernetes. Demonstrate experience of managing clusters of Kubernetes, Mesos etc
- Proven capability to lead incident response, drive root cause analysis, and implement preventive measures
- Expertise in DevOps / SRE practices, including IaC, configuration management, container technologies, microservices, CI/CD processes, etc
- Strong problem-solving skills and capability to work on complex systems
- Experience in working in an Agile environment
- Experience in working with distributed team
Desirable
- Passion to run and improve the customer facing systems with high degree of availability (four 9’s)
- Experience with Databases and database design principles at cloud scale
- Demonstrated experience leading complex, large-scale cloud and data streaming projects involving multiple teams/functions
- Passionate about building and motivating engineering teams, experience with driving organizational strategic initiatives
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with experience collaborating in a dispersed multicultural team to deliver projects, sometimes responsible for leading initiatives
- A perpetual learner and often find yourself ideating about new and improved ways of doing things and are confident to share your ideas with the rest of the engineering team
- Demonstrates mature judgment when making engineering decisions, and can reliably make the call between elegant and practical solutions
What the job involves
- Autodesk is looking for a DevOps / Site Reliability Principal Engineer to join the Autodesk Platform Services Team
- The team delivers high-value, exabyte-scale data streaming platform powering desktop, mobile, and web products
- This enables our product teams to build cohesive in-product data experiences, our partners to integrate, search and expand granular data across all Autodesk products
- You will report to the Senior Manager - Software Development based in Dublin, Ireland
- You will be part of the team who creates amazing things and will learn from some of the best in the industry
- Our team enables real-time data-centric experiences at scale to make a difference for all of those who imagine, design, and make our world
- This is an exciting opportunity to be part of and to help evolve developing the engineering discipline in an Agile environment and to contribute to an organization committed to continuous improvement
- You will lead all aspects of DevOps, CI/CD, Observability, Alerting and Reliability; working to create and maintain most reliable, secure, scalable and highly resilient data streaming platform
- You will lead team level DevOps and SRE outcomes and initiatives
- Configure, improve cloud infrastructure for service availability, resiliency, performance, and cost efficiency with increasing load over time
- Be accountable for SLOs of the services by driving and improving the process including service reviews, fire drills and HA assessment
- Create innovative solutions to monitor health checks of data streaming apps
- Keep system updated in time for security compliance
- Engage in technical discussions and technical decision-making
- Build tools to improve operation efficiency
- Serve as a primary point responsible for the overall health, performance, and capacity of our data streaming platform across Autodesk
- Exhibit steadfast leadership and makes substantial contributions to large-scale, intricate projects that frequently entail collaboration among multiple engineers and cross-functional teams
- Drive the design, implementation, and management for expanding observability infrastructure, keeping up to date with new technologies
- Come up with innovative solutions for resilient data streaming platform at scale
- You will collaborate with software architects, product managers, and software developers to iteratively transform high-level SRE, DevOps requirements into enhancements that are delivered incrementally
- Exhibits ownership of domain/large-scale platforms encompassing end-to-end responsibilities from Engineering Practices, Solutions, Quality, and Deployment to Support
- Lead sustainable incident response, blameless postmortems, and production improvements that result in direct business opportunities
- Automate deployment, scaling, and management of infrastructure using modern DevOps tools and practices
- Monitor and optimize system performance, troubleshoot issues, and implement solutions
- Implement and maintain configuration management and infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform
- Define and document best practices across all pillars of DevOps/SRE
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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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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