Principal Backend Developer, Autodesk

• As our ideal candidate, you will have experience designing, developing, and supporting business critical web/cloud clients, components, and services
• You are excited for green-field projects and bring your own domain experience but lean into the hard and try new things to solve evolving challenges
• 8+ years of professional experience in software development, with at least 3 years of experience in backend system development
• BS or MS in Computer Science or related technical field
• Strong knowledge of Information and Cloud Security Best Practice
• Experience with security / sandboxing implementation as well as security monitoring
• Proficiency with key languages such as C#, TypeScript, Python, Node.js, React, etc
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell for automation tasks
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools like Terraform or Ansible
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack)
• Experience with configuration management tools (e.g., Chef, Puppet, SaltStack)
• Understanding of network protocols, security best practices, and load balancing
• Strong knowledge of Information and Cloud Security Best Practices
• Experience in 24x7 support of the highly available production systems with experience in keeping stakeholders informed
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and tools (e.g., Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub Actions)
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure, etc., and how to deploy and manage applications on them
• Experience in working in an Agile environment
• Experience in working with distributed team
• Passion to run and improve the customer facing systems with high degree of availability (four 9’s)

Desirable

• We are looking for a driven, passionate, self-motivated Principal Backend Software Developer to join the Computational Design and Automation (CDA) engineering team
• The mission of this team is to transition the CDA Product lines such as Dynamo and Generative Design to cutting-edge services based on the latest Web, Cloud, AI/ML and 3D Data Visualization technologies to better empower existing and new customers to automate design workflows on the web
• As a Principal Backend Developer, you will be responsible for building and delivering a high-performance architecture and service in AWS to support execution of user defined code / automation
• System performance, scalability, and security are key differentiators
• These services will empower a modern collaborative web authoring and 3D visualization experience for our customers transitioning from traditional desktop workflows to the cloud
• You will empower a high performing team within Autodesk and actively engage the network of community contributors to the Dynamo open-source project
• Actively develop and maintain our highly available production systems, ensuring they are robust, scalable, and maintainable
• Actively contribute to the threat modeling and security architecture design to ensure our services maintain an appropriate threat mitigation stance
• Configure and improve cloud infrastructure for service availability, resiliency, performance, and cost efficiency with increasing load over time
• Gain deep knowledge of both our complex internally developed applications and enterprise-class services
• Collaborate with software architects, product managers, and software developers to iteratively transform high-level Performance, Security, SRE, and DevOps requirements into enhancements that are delivered incrementally
• Engage in technical discussions and technical decision-making
• Lead sustainable incident response, blameless postmortems, and production improvements
• Keep supported services compliant with the company and regulatory requirements including but not limited to security, privacy, and SOC2
• Build, automate, and improve observability dashboards to provide better visibility into the operational aspects of the systems
• Creating REST-based Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and GraphQL APIs collaborating with the consumer community
• Stay current with industry trends and best practices in backend development
• Ensure the quality of the backend codebase through code reviews, automated testing, and quality control measures
• Function well in a fast-paced, rapidly-changing environment