Senior Principal Engineer - AI Platform & Cloud

Autodesk, Inc; San Francisco (CA); On-site; CAD 157,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Autodesk, Inc. in Canada is seeking a Senior Principal Engineer – AI and Engineering Excellence to lead the technical strategy for cloud platforms, developer experience, and AI-enabled engineering capabilities.

You will drive architecture, platform adoption, and cross-functional collaboration across Software Engineering, Security, Infrastructure, and Product teams. The role requires deep AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform, IaC, and CI/CD expertise, with a focus on scalable, secure, and observable

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience with proven technical leadership as a Principal Engineer, Software Architect, or Technical Lead.
• Deep expertise in AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform, AWS CDK, ArgoCD/GitOps, and modern CI/CD platforms.
• Proven experience operating large-scale cloud platforms and running production services on Kubernetes.
• Strong background managing CDN, Web Security, and high-scale web applications.
• Experience designing highly available, secure, observable, and resilient distributed systems.
• Deep understanding of Authentication & Authorization, cloud security, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Strong experience with observability, SRE practices, incident management, and reliability engineering.
• Mastery of at least one programming language: Python, Java, TypeScript, or Go.
• Familiarity with automated testing tools such as Playwright, BlazeMeter, JMeter, LoadRunner, or similar.
• Proven ability to drive developer productivity through platform automation and self-service engineering solutions.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to influence senior leadership and drive technical outcomes in a highly collaborative environment.
• Proven experience designing, building, or integrating production AI-enabled platform services.
• Experience with LLM APIs, RAG, agentic workflows, tool integration, MCP, and enterprise AI platform architecture.
• Experience applying security, governance, evaluation, and observability practices to enterprise AI systems.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the technical vision for Platform Engineering, DevOps, and Internal Developer Platform (IDP) initiatives.
• Architect and evolve cloud-native platforms on AWS using Kubernetes (EKS), IaC, GitOps, and modern CI/CD pipelines.
• Build scalable, secure, and highly available platform services that improve developer productivity and accelerate application delivery.
• Establish reusable platform “paved roads,” self-service capabilities, and automation that reduce operational overhead.
• Drive operational excellence through observability, SRE practices, security-by-default, incident management, and continuous improvement.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, design guidance, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes (EKS)

Terraform

CI/CD

IaC

Observability/SRE

Security by default

Programming: Python/Java/TS/Go

LLM/AI platform experience

GitOps

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes (EKS)

Terraform

AWS CDK

ArgoCD/GitOps

CI/CD tools

Playwright

BlazeMeter

JMeter

LoadRunner

Job description

Autodesk, Inc. in Canada is seeking a Senior Principal Engineer – AI and Engineering Excellence to lead the technical strategy for cloud platforms, developer experience, and AI-enabled engineering capabilities.

You will drive architecture, platform adoption, and cross-functional collaboration across Software Engineering, Security, Infrastructure, and Product teams. The role requires deep AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform, IaC, and CI/CD expertise, with a focus on scalable, secure, and observable