Autodesk

Technology

SeniorPrincipalEngineer(FullStack/Platform)

₹65–95L ~AI est. Bengaluru, India FULL TIME
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The Brief

“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.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

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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