Senior Platform DB Engineer — Cloud Data & Kafka

Autodesk; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Autodesk Construction Solutions. senior technical contributor role to shape structured storage and database fleet across the SRS platform.

You will influence architecture, drive end-to-end initiatives, and collaborate with multiple engineering groups to raise technical standards. Dieses role offers significant autonomy, cross-team impact, and a path to leadership in cloud data infrastructure within Autodesk.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in software engineering for platform, infrastructure or data.
• 5+ years Kubernetes architecture at scale.
• 7+ years Terraform experience.
• 7+ years cloud data technologies experience.
• Deep Postgres or DynamoDB experience at fleet scale.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects end-to-end.
• Hands-on Kafka or event streaming experience in production; CDC pipelines a bonus.
• ORM tooling experience to drive semantic eventing.
• Kubernetes CRD hands-on experience.
• Strong AWS background: IAM, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, ECS/EKS, multi-region.
• Ability to align three engineers with different opinions to a common approach.
• Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and GitOps deployment experience.
• Strong communication and organizational skills.

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 development standards.
• Assess SRS cloud platform needs at scale; identify risks and gaps; drive roadmap.
• Own and improve fleet-wide operations: capacity management, monitoring, alerting, query tuning, load optimization, 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.
• Build a network of storage champions; consult with product teams; identify training opportunities.
• Own reliability for what you build: monitoring, runbooks, on-call response, post-incident learning.
• Partner with SRS leadership to sequence work and tradeoffs across teams.
• Drive migration and schema lifecycle initiatives; manage rollout risk and rollback coverage.
• Mentor P2/P3 engineers; conduct design and code reviews.
• Represent SRS requirements in cross-org forums: architecture review, group leadership.
• Provide tactical leadership during production emergencies.

Skills

Kubernetes

Terraform

Cloud data

Postgres

DynamoDB

Kafka

ORM tooling

AWS

GitOps

CRD tooling

Tools

CRD controllers

Job description

Autodesk Construction Solutions. senior technical contributor role to shape structured storage and database fleet across the SRS platform.

You will influence architecture, drive end-to-end initiatives, and collaborate with multiple engineering groups to raise technical standards. Dieses role offers significant autonomy, cross-team impact, and a path to leadership in cloud data infrastructure within Autodesk.