About the role
Welcome to Autodesk!
The world’s innovators, designers, engineers, builders, and creators trust Autodesk to help them design and make a better world for all. Autodesk’s Design and Make Platform empowers everyone, everywhere to design and make anything. From the buildings we live and work in, to the cars we drive and the bridges we drive over. From the products we use and technology we rely on, to the movies and games that inspire us. Everything around us is made using Autodesk software. Autodesk’s leading Design and Make Platform offers customers the technology to help them create the world around us, and the critical insights and data to deliver better outcomes for their business and the planet.
At Autodesk, we celebrate all the real-world problem solvers, creative rebels, and innovators who are driven to improve the reality around us. Because we don’t believe in waiting for progress; we believe in making it. When you’re an Autodesker, you can be your whole, authentic self and do meaningful work that helps build a better future for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!
We are looking for a Principal Engineer to own and deliver complex modules within our Search Infrastructure within Autodesk Platform Services. You will work with system architects, Sr principal engineers to build modern and scalable Search Platform that powers the search experiences across Autodesk’s Industry Clouds – Fusion, Forma and Flow, and solve demanding distributed systems and algorithmic problems.
Responsibilities
Lead the design, development and operations of highly scalable, distributed, data intensive micro-services. Champion adopting industry best practices to push the development standards within the team. Partner with Software Architects, Product Managers and Engineering Managers to design technical solutions to drive business outcomes. Help to meet SLAs of large-scale micro-services with monitoring, troubleshooting and optimizing. Lead detection, recovery and postmortems of production incidents. Help to hire, mentor Engineers, help build fast-growing and high-performing teams. Perform thorough design and code reviews, drive best practices to clean and maintainable code.
Minimum Qualifications
BS in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience. Strong Computer Science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and data management. Thorough knowledge of multi-threading, concurrency, and parallel processing concepts. Exceptional proficiency in Java or Golang or similar programming language. 10+ years of experience in building and running large scale systems. Thorough understanding of database systems (e.g. MySQL, DynamoDB) including scalability, performance, and consistency characteristics. Expertise with modern technology stacks, API design, microservices, stream processing and designing for resilience and operational excellence. Strong communicator. You enjoy synthesizing, simplifying, and articulating complex problems to other engineers. Expertise in Cloud Infrastructure platforms such as AWS. Exposure to Information Retrieval with hands on experience in Lucene/ElasticSearch/OpenSearch.
Preferred Qualifications
Exposure to Vector Databases and ML Infrastructure. Exposure to Knowledge Graph/ Graph Databases. Experience in monitoring and improving Reliability of a complex system at scale. Aware of Security and Compliance challenges in Cloud products and/or platforms.
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About Autodesk
Autodesk is changing how the world is designed and made.
Our technology spans architecture, engineering, construction, product design, manufacturing, and media and entertainment. We empower innovators everywhere to solve challenges, big and small. From greener buildings to smarter products and more mesmerizing blockbusters, Autodesk software helps our customers design and make a better world for all.
Over 100 million people use Autodesk software, like AutoCAD, Revit, Maya, 3ds Max, Fusion 360, SketchBook, and more, to unlock their creativity and solve important design, business, and environmental challenges. Our software runs on both personal computers and mobile devices. It taps the infinite computing power of the cloud to help teams around the world collaborate, design, simulate, and fabricate their ideas in 3D.
We provide exceptional compensation and benefit packages, and we’d love for you to join us. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, gender, disability, veteran status, or other protected category. To see our culture in action, check out #AutodeskLife.
We are headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area and have over 10,000 employees worldwide.
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About the role
Welcome to Autodesk!
The world’s innovators, designers, engineers, builders, and creators trust Autodesk to help them design and make a better world for all. Autodesk’s Design and Make Platform empowers everyone, everywhere to design and make anything. From the buildings we live and work in, to the cars we drive and the bridges we drive over. From the products we use and technology we rely on, to the movies and games that inspire us. Everything around us is made using Autodesk software. Autodesk’s leading Design and Make Platform offers customers the technology to help them create the world around us, and the critical insights and data to deliver better outcomes for their business and the planet.
At Autodesk, we celebrate all the real-world problem solvers, creative rebels, and innovators who are driven to improve the reality around us. Because we don’t believe in waiting for progress; we believe in making it. When you’re an Autodesker, you can be your whole, authentic self and do meaningful work that helps build a better future for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!
We are looking for a Principal Engineer to own and deliver complex modules within our Search Infrastructure within Autodesk Platform Services. You will work with system architects, Sr principal engineers to build modern and scalable Search Platform that powers the search experiences across Autodesk’s Industry Clouds – Fusion, Forma and Flow, and solve demanding distributed systems and algorithmic problems.
Responsibilities
Lead the design, development and operations of highly scalable, distributed, data intensive micro-services. Champion adopting industry best practices to push the development standards within the team. Partner with Software Architects, Product Managers and Engineering Managers to design technical solutions to drive business outcomes. Help to meet SLAs of large-scale micro-services with monitoring, troubleshooting and optimizing. Lead detection, recovery and postmortems of production incidents. Help to hire, mentor Engineers, help build fast-growing and high-performing teams. Perform thorough design and code reviews, drive best practices to clean and maintainable code.
Minimum Qualifications
BS in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience. Strong Computer Science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and data management. Thorough knowledge of multi-threading, concurrency, and parallel processing concepts. Exceptional proficiency in Java or Golang or similar programming language. 10+ years of experience in building and running large scale systems. Thorough understanding of database systems (e.g. MySQL, DynamoDB) including scalability, performance, and consistency characteristics. Expertise with modern technology stacks, API design, microservices, stream processing and designing for resilience and operational excellence. Strong communicator. You enjoy synthesizing, simplifying, and articulating complex problems to other engineers. Expertise in Cloud Infrastructure platforms such as AWS. Exposure to Information Retrieval with hands on experience in Lucene/ElasticSearch/OpenSearch.
Preferred Qualifications
Exposure to Vector Databases and ML Infrastructure. Exposure to Knowledge Graph/ Graph Databases. Experience in monitoring and improving Reliability of a complex system at scale. Aware of Security and Compliance challenges in Cloud products and/or platforms.
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About Autodesk
Autodesk is changing how the world is designed and made.
Our technology spans architecture, engineering, construction, product design, manufacturing, and media and entertainment. We empower innovators everywhere to solve challenges, big and small. From greener buildings to smarter products and more mesmerizing blockbusters, Autodesk software helps our customers design and make a better world for all.
Over 100 million people use Autodesk software, like AutoCAD, Revit, Maya, 3ds Max, Fusion 360, SketchBook, and more, to unlock their creativity and solve important design, business, and environmental challenges. Our software runs on both personal computers and mobile devices. It taps the infinite computing power of the cloud to help teams around the world collaborate, design, simulate, and fabricate their ideas in 3D.
We provide exceptional compensation and benefit packages, and we’d love for you to join us. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, gender, disability, veteran status, or other protected category. To see our culture in action, check out #AutodeskLife.
We are headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area and have over 10,000 employees worldwide.