Autodesk
Technology
SeniorPrincipalEngineer(FullStack/Platform)
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“Senior Principal Engineer (Full Stack/Platform) at Autodesk. Skills: Platform engineering, Distributed systems, Full-stack development, GenAI. Own technical vision and architecture. Translate product strategy into roadmaps”
What You'll Achieve.
Convert strategic goals into outcomes; Deliver resilient platforms; Teams move faster; Teams move with confidence; Align delivery to business outcomes
Industry & Context.
Solve hard engineering problems; Technical debt remediation; Continuous improvement
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, 12+ years of software engineering experience, Proven track record as systems architect, Hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures, Deep experience designing microservices, Full-stack web expertise, Hands-on with CI/CD, Operational excellence / SRE skills, Experience with platform integrations, Demonstrated leadership in complex environments
Nice to Have
Recognized expert in at least one technical domain, AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, RDS, Lambda, CloudFormation, CloudWatch), Resilient, multi-region systems design, RESTful APIs, Orchestration/workflow systems (Temporal or equivalent), Containers (Docker), Kubernetes, Service deployment patterns, Node.js, Server-side Java, Modern JavaScript (ES6+), React (production), HTML5/CSS3, Responsive design, Build/tooling (npm, Webpack), Jenkins/GitHub Actions, Artifactory, Developing/testing frameworks, QA automation, Observability, SLOs/SLIs, Monitoring/alerting, Incident response, Capacity planning, Backup/restore, Production debugging, Search/ML integrations, GenAI integrations, Vector search, High-scale commerce/checkout systems, eCommerce, Salesforce APIs, Security/PCI considerations, Excellent written communication, Excellent verbal communication, Ability to mentor senior engineers, Ability to mentor EMs, Sound judgment balancing short-term delivery with long-term architectural vision
What You'll Do.
Own technical vision and architecture
Translate product strategy into roadmaps
Lead design and delivery of systems
Drive cross-organizational decisions
Ensure consistency and reuse
Produce production-quality code
Review design documents
Define platform standards
Enforce platform standards
Champion automated testing
Champion continuous delivery pipelines
Own operational readiness
Partner with Architects
Partner with Engineering Managers
Align delivery to business outcomes
Mentor senior engineers
Grow senior engineers
Build technical leadership
Evaluate new technologies
Adopt new technologies
Identify technical debt
Drive continuous improvement
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Multiple teams; Cross-organizational decisions; Partner with Product; Partner with Architects; Partner with Engineering Managers; SRE partnership; Multi-team environments
Communication Scope
Written communication; Verbal communication
Process & Methodology
Roadmaps, Dependencies, Prioritization
Full Job Description
**Job Requisition ID #** 26WD96635 **Position Overview** **** Are you energised by shaping technical direction and building platform-scale systems that power experiences for millions of users? Autodesk’s Growth Experience Technology (GET) — APAC Engineering is hiring a Senior Principal Engineer to own architecture and delivery for high-impact platform initiatives across commerce, site experience (autodesk.com), search and GenAI. You’ll set the technical vision, design and deliver highly available, scalable distributed systems and front-end platforms, and act as a force-multiplier across multiple teams to convert strategic product goals into measurable business outcomes. In this role you will solve hard engineering problems — from next-generation e-commerce engines that enable experimentation and personalisation, to generative-search and vector search platforms, messaging and content services, unified testing and observability, and API-monetization frameworks. You’ll partner closely with product, architecture, SRE and engineering leadership to define pragmatic roadmaps, deliver resilient platforms (workflow orchestration, cloud-native micro services) and mentor senior engineers so teams move faster and with higher confidence. **Responsibilities** * Own the technical vision and architecture for multiple services/platforms, translating product strategy and OKRs into measurable technical roadmaps * Lead design and delivery of highly available, secure, and performant production systems (microservices, orchestration, platform APIs and front-end experiences) * Drive cross-organizational decisions on architecture, tooling and frameworks, ensuring consistency, reuse and API quality across teams * Produce and review production-quality code, design documents, runbooks and lead major cutovers, migrations and rollouts * Define and enforce platform standards for CI/CD, test automation, observability, SLOs/SLIs, security, cost controls and autoscaling * Champion comprehensive aut
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