Senior Principal Software Developer (Hybrid) - Product Data

Job Requisition ID #

24WD83814

24WD83814, Senior Principal Software Developer

Please note this is a hybrid role. Relocation is an option.

Please note this role can be located in Montreal, Toronto or Vancouver.

Position Overview

Autodesk is looking for a Senior Principal Software Developer to join the Autodesk Platform Services Data Models Team. The team delivers high-value, exabyte-scale and cloud data platform components powering desktop, mobile, and web products. This enables our product teams to build cohesive in-product data experiences, our partners to integrate and expand our data, and our end-users to work with their data across all Autodesk products.

You will report to the Manager, Software Development Manager based in Canada, and the role is hybrid based in Montreal or Toronto. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of and to help evolve developing the engineering discipline in a lean/Agile environment and to contribute to an organization committed to continuous improvement. You will be a central part of the team who creates amazing things and will learn from some of the best in the industry! Our team enables real-time data-centric experiences at scale to make a difference for all of those who imagine, design, and make our world. Join us to make anything!

Responsibilities

• Lead key business outcome and high stakes initiatives
• Accountable for results which may impact an entire division or functional area
• Lead and contribute to development of company objectives
• Clearly articulate and communicate the business drivers for an area of investment
• Demonstrate impact and influence across teams outside of the direct organization
• Lead outcomes and achieve alignment on initiatives that span teams across the functional area or division
• Provide thought leadership and work on broader organization projects requiring understanding of wider business goals
• Aware of emerging threats and opportunities for Autodesk in the product data and cloud platform areas
• Be able to influence and advise senior level leadership
• Initiate, lead and own the development and implementation of effective technical strategies. Drive the Engineering Vision and best practices, customized for a specific domain or a large and complex platform
• Navigate the dual role of hands-on code contributor across multiple platforms within the domain, while concurrently providing pivotal technical leadership and architectural guidance
• Proactively identify and implement tools, patterns, and frameworks that enhance the overarching development process and amplify the overall Engineering Efficiency and Quality
• Demonstrate strong leadership in incident calls driving the investigation, timely resolution, and improvements required for each incident. Participate in Blameless Postmortems outside of your team and drive actions for improvements within and outside the team
• Capable of acting as Product Owner for the team, balancing the requirements from different sources like architectural roadmaps or product management, as well as improving services
• Mentor and lead developers across the organization, and create opportunities to share knowledge

Minimum Qualifications

• Graduate or Postgraduate in Computer Science Engineering or related technical fields
• 12+ years of software design, development, and/or consulting experience in cloud systems or web services, with at least 7 years in a senior leadership role
• Demonstrated experience leading complex, large-scale cloud projects involving multiple teams
• Proven capability to lead incident response, drive root cause analysis, and implement preventive measures
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to lead technical discussions and present complex ideas to diverse audiences
• Demonstrated ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams and stakeholders
• Strong understanding of architectural patterns, design principles, and best engineering practices
• Strong understanding of business drivers
• Proven ability to mentor and develop technical talent within the organization
• Exceptional proficiency in Java programming with extensive hands-on experience in Spring Boot
• Mastery of software development lifecycle (SDLC) processes, tools, and Agile methodologies
• Exceptional hands-on proficiency with AWS or other cloud providers
• API development experience (REST, GraphQL, gRPC)
• Additional programming skills like Go or TypeScript
• High expertise in object-oriented design patterns
• Experience with CI/CD concepts and working with a deployment pipeline such as Jenkins
• Strong proficiency with databases and database design principles at cloud scale
• Strong experience building scalable systems and services in the cloud