Autodesk
SeniorSoftwareEngineer
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“Senior Software Engineer at Autodesk. Skills: Distributed systems, Platform engineering, API development, Automation. Design scalable APIs. Develop scalable microservices”
Industry & Context.
Solving hard distributed systems problems
On-call rotations
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years software engineering experience, Go, Java, or Python programming, Design and build distributed systems, Build and consume APIs, CI/CD, containerization, cloud native infrastructure, Learn new technologies quickly
Nice to Have
Streaming technologies experience, Big data ecosystems experience, Data platforms experience, Observability and monitoring frameworks experience, Developer platforms experience
What You'll Do.
Develop scalable microservices
Build backend services
Develop full-stack capabilities
Architect distributed systems
Implement distributed systems
Process millions of records
Build streaming systems
Build ingestion systems
Develop control-plane services
Design self-service infrastructure
Build fault-tolerant systems
Implement cloud-native practices
Drive performance optimization
Improve system efficiency
Participate in on-call rotations
Take operational ownership
Identify manual processes
Replace manual processes
Build workflow orchestration
Build scheduling systems
Improve deployment pipelines
Reduce operational overhead
Accelerate engineering productivity
Partner with product managers
Translate business needs
Contribute to architectural direction
Contribute to technical strategy
Raise engineering bar
Promote engineering best practices
Promote documentation discipline
Promote long-term maintainability
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with product managers; Partner with architects; Partner with data engineers; Partner with ML teams; Code reviews; Design discussions
Full Job Description
**Job Requisition ID #** 26WD97800 **Position Overview** Autodesk’s Data Platform is building the next generation of data infrastructure, AI native, scalable, and developer-friendly systems that power analytics, AI, real-time insights, and customer-facing experiences across Autodesk. To power this vision, we are hiring **software engineers who build platforms.** You are someone who learns quickly, moves decisively, and takes ownership of complex systems. You enjoy solving hard distributed systems problems, writing production-grade code, automating everything, and turning ambiguity into scalable architecture. You will design and build APIs, streaming systems, control planes, automation frameworks, and developer-facing platform capabilities that enable thousands of engineers and data practitioners across Autodesk. This is a high-impact engineering role with real architectural ownership. Location: Hybrid, San Francisco Bay Area Reporting to: Senior Software Development Manager (US) **Responsibilities** * Design and develop scalable APIs and microservices (REST, GraphQL, event-driven) * Build backend services using modern languages such as **Go, Java, or Python** * Develop full-stack capabilities when needed (React, micro-frontends) to enable platform usability * Architect and implement distributed systems that process millions of records across batch and real-time pipelines * Build and evolve streaming and ingestion systems using Kafka and Flink * Develop control-plane services for orchestration, workflow management, and metadata-driven automation * Design self-service infrastructure abstractions for storage, compute, and workflow provisioning * Build highly available, fault-tolerant distributed systems * Define SLAs/SLIs and drive observability across platform services * Implement strong testing, CI/CD, and modern, cloud-native practices * Drive performance optimization and system efficiency * Participate in on-call rotations and take operational ownership seriously *
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