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Sr. Software Engineer, Data Products

Autodesk · San Francisco, CA · 2 wk ago
HybridEngineering$117k–$209k/yrFull-time

About the role

Autodesk’s Data Platform is building the next generation of data infrastructure, AI native, scalable, and developer-friendly systems that power analytics, AI, real-time insights, and customer-facing experiences across Autodesk. To power this vision, we are hiring software engineers who build platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Build the Platform
  • Design and develop scalable APIs and microservices (REST, GraphQL, event-driven)
  • Develop full-stack capabilities when needed (React, micro-frontends) to enable platform usability
  • Architect and implement distributed systems that process millions of records across batch and real-time pipelines
  • Build and evolve streaming and ingestion systems using Kafka and Flink
  • Develop control-plane services for orchestration, workflow management, and metadata-driven automation
  • Design self-service infrastructure abstractions for storage, compute, and workflow provisioning
  • Engineer for Scale & Reliability
  • Build highly available, fault-tolerant distributed systems
  • Define SLAs/SLIs and drive observability across platform services
  • Implement strong testing, CI/CD, and modern, cloud-native practices
  • Drive performance optimization and system efficiency
  • Automate Everything
  • Identify manual processes and replace them with resilient automation
  • Build intelligent workflow orchestration and scheduling systems
  • Improve deployment pipelines and reduce operational overhead
  • Leverage AI/LLMs and modern tooling to accelerate engineering productivity
  • Collaborate & Lead Technically
  • Partner with product managers, architects, data engineers, and ML teams to translate business needs into scalable systems
  • Contribute to architectural direction and technical strategy
  • Mentor engineers and raise the engineering bar through code reviews and design discussions
  • Promote engineering best practices, documentation discipline, and long-term maintainability

Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building production systems
  • Strong programming skills in Go, Java, or Python
  • Proven experience designing and building distributed systems or microservices architectures
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
  • Experience building and consuming APIs (REST, GraphQL, event-driven)
  • Strong understanding of CI/CD, containerization, and cloud native infrastructure
  • Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies quickly and apply them effectively
  • Ownership mindset: you build it, you run it, you improve it

Qualifications

  • Preferred Experience with streaming technologies (Kafka, Flink)
  • Experience with big data ecosystems (Spark, Trino/Presto, Hive, EMR)
  • Experience building data platforms, storage systems, or orchestration engines (Airflow, Temporal)
  • Familiarity with data modeling, schema design, and large-scale data processing
  • Experience implementing observability and monitoring frameworks

Skills

  • Experience with modern languages such as Go, Java, or Python
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
  • Experience building and consuming APIs (REST, GraphQL, event-driven)
  • Strong understanding of CI/CD, containerization, and cloud native infrastructure
  • Experience with distributed systems or microservices architectures
  • Experience with streaming technologies (Kafka, Flink)
  • Experience with big data ecosystems (Spark, Trino/Presto, Hive, EMR)
  • Experience building data platforms, storage systems, or orchestration engines (Airflow, Temporal)
  • Familiarity with data modeling, schema design, and large-scale data processing
  • Experience implementing observability and monitoring frameworks

Benefits

Salary transparency
Autodesk expects a starting base salary between $117,000 and $209,330. Offers are based on the candidate's experience and geographic location, and may exceed this range.
In addition to base salaries, our compensation package may include annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Equal Employment Opportunity

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic.

Diversity & Belonging

We take pride in cultivating a culture of belonging where everyone can thrive. Learn more here: https://www.autodesk.com/company/diversity-and-belonging

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