Senior Database Platform Architect (Postgres/DynamoDB)

Autodesk; Saskatchewan; On-site; CAD 131,000 - 191,000; Full time

Job summary

Autodesk Construction Solutions seeks a senior technical contributor to set technical direction for the Structured Record Storage platform, overseeing database fleet operations, API abstractions, and cross‑team storage initiatives. You will influence architecture decisions and drive high-impact work with significant autonomy.

You will mentor P2/P3 engineers, lead end-to-end projects, and collaborate with product teams to scale Postgres and DynamoDB infrastructures in AWS, ensuring reliability

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering in a platform, infrastructure, or data engineering context.
• 5+ years of Kubernetes architecture at scale.
• 7+ years of Terraform experience.
• 7+ years of experience with cloud data technologies.
• Deep Postgres or DynamoDB experience at scale: fleet-level operations, not application-level use.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects end-to-end: design through production.
• Hands‑on Kafka or event streaming experience in production; bonus if you've built CDC pipelines (Postgres binlog, DynamoDB Streams, Debezium)
• ORM experience at the framework or platform layer: you've built or extended ORM tooling to drive semantic eventing, not just consumed it
• Kubernetes CRD hands‑on experience: designing or operating controllers/operators that manage platform resources
• Strong AWS background: IAM, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, ECS/EKS, multi‑region
• Able to drive technical alignment across opinionated teams; you've gotten three engineers with different opinions to agree on an approach
• Infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform) and GitOps deployment experience
• Strong communication and organizational skills; you can influence outcomes across teams, groups, and leadership

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of high-impact SRS platform capabilities: event platform CDC integration (Kafka), schema automation, Structured Record Access API, fleet management tooling
• Set technical direction for one or more SRS sub-areas: architecture standards, design reviews, raising the bar on how the team builds
• Continuously assess SRS cloud platform needs at scale, identify significant risks and gaps, and drive the roadmap to close them
• Own and improve fleet-wide operations: capacity management, monitoring and alerting, query tuning, load optimization, and data replication for reporting workloads
• Create and institutionalize best practices and health models for the database fleet; use observability tooling and AWS automation to enforce standards consistently across hundreds of managed databases
• Build a high-impact network of storage champions across engineering groups, consult directly with product teams and group leads on storage readiness and risk, and select training opportunities that raise engineering capability division-wide
• Own reliability for what you build: monitoring, runbooks, on-call response, post-incident learning
• Partner with SRS area leadership across managed database platform, DevEx, and data warehousing to sequence work and make cross-team tradeoffs
• Drive migration and schema lifecycle initiatives across the fleet, coordinating with product teams, managing rollout risk, validating rollback coverage
• Mentor P2/P3 engineers; conduct design and code reviews with real feedback
• Represent SRS technical requirements in cross-org forums: architecture review, group leadership
• Provide tactical leadership during production emergencies

Skills

Software engineering

Kubernetes

Terraform

Cloud data technologies

Postgres / DynamoDB

Kafka / event streaming

ORM tooling

Kubernetes CRD

AWS

cross-team alignment

IaC / GitOps

communication

Tools

Postgres

DynamoDB

Kafka

Terraform

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Autodesk Construction Solutions seeks a senior technical contributor to set technical direction for the Structured Record Storage platform, overseeing database fleet operations, API abstractions, and cross‑team storage initiatives. You will influence architecture decisions and drive high-impact work with significant autonomy.

You will mentor P2/P3 engineers, lead end-to-end projects, and collaborate with product teams to scale Postgres and DynamoDB infrastructures in AWS, ensuring reliability