Platform Engineer - Distributed Backend (Go/Python, Cloud)

Autodesk, Inc.; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Autodesk is seeking a Software Engineer to help build, operate, and advance the distributed compute platform that supports internal development teams across the company. This hybrid role involves designing, developing, testing, and operating backend services with a focus on reliability and scalability.

You will own features end-to-end, participate in on-call rotations, and collaborate with internal teams to improve engineering practices and service quality.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of hands-on software development experience with strong software engineering fundamentals, including testing, debugging, code quality, and design principles.
• Experience building production backend software in Go, Java, Python, or a similar language.
• Experience building and operating software on cloud infrastructure and working with distributed systems.
• Experience owning technical work from implementation through to production support.
• Experience diagnosing and resolving production issues using sound technical judgment and pragmatic decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver well-defined features and improvements to reliable distributed services used across Autodesk.
• Write clean, testable, maintainable code and participate in code reviews and technical design discussions.
• Troubleshoot production issues and drive improvements to the reliability, scalability, and operability of our platform services.
• Help internal development teams succeed on the platform by answering technical questions, resolving usage issues, and providing sample code and reusable patterns.
• Participate in on-call rotations to support production systems.

Skills

Backend software development

Go/Java/Python

On-call production support

Tools

AWS (ECS/EKS/Lambda/Step Functions)

Containers & orchestration

Observability tooling (logging/tracing/metrics)

Networking & security fundamentals

Job description

Autodesk is seeking a Software Engineer to help build, operate, and advance the distributed compute platform that supports internal development teams across the company. This hybrid role involves designing, developing, testing, and operating backend services with a focus on reliability and scalability.

You will own features end-to-end, participate in on-call rotations, and collaborate with internal teams to improve engineering practices and service quality.