Principal Software Engineer - Storage Services

Job Requisition ID #

22WD61795

Position Overview

Autodesk's Platform team is looking for a passionate Senior Principal Engineer to join our team. Our organizational ecosystem comprises cloud services and web client components. In this role, you will be instrumental in driving key parts of the implementation of the cloud data platform of Autodesk. This is an opportunity to work on applications that directly impact the millions of users of Autodesk products. You will be part of an agile engineering team of smart and highly motivated software engineers building world-class cloud software applications and services. You will work in a global organization and collaborate with local and remote colleagues from various disciplines like business, engineering, operations, support etc. You will work with the latest technologies in a flexible environment.

Responsibilities
• Contribute to all aspects of software development from architecture to design to estimation to development to testing and release
• Develop, debug and build automated tests for various programming assignments
• Partner closely with product owners, software architects and other software engineers to iteratively turn high level requirements into product enhancements that are delivered to customers incrementally and continually
• Contribute to improvements in processes and deliverables that increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the team in responding to customer and business needs
• Design infrastructure, deploy, monitor and maintain large-scale production applications to comply with service level agreements

Minimum Qualifications
• 12+ years of production level Java/Scala development experience
• Demonstrable Java programming/problem solving skills and ability to break down complex problems
• Expertise with using design patterns
• Hands-on experience with AWS (or other cloud provider's) technologies such as SQS, S3, DynamoDB, IAM, Lambda, etc.
• Experience working on Spring/Spring-Boot or Play Framework
• Experience with software development lifecycle (SDLC) processes, tools, and Agile methodologies including Kanban/Sprint
• Experience with common tools/processes such as GIT, Maven, unit tests, PR/code reviews
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English
• BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience
• Experience in building highly scalable systems and services in the cloud, including calling other REST services from within a REST service

Preferred Qualifications
• Experience using Terraform to build infrastructure as code
• Experience in building, running and monitoring SaaS applications at large scale
• Experience with multi-repo GIT code bases, REST-based web services, testing frameworks such as Blazemeter, shell scripts, automated CI/CD pipelines

The Ideal Candidate
• A team-leader/senior engineer, with a result-focused passion to deliver an overall solution
• You embrace perpetual learning and are always ready for a new challenge. Not only are you comfortable designing solutions and presenting demos of working software, but also addressing questions about progress

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