Principal Software Engineer-Systems&App Data

Position Overview

In this role, you will be part of an agile team to (re)imagine what is possible. You’ll be helping our Customer Data team design and implement cloud-based (micro)services and other software components using modern best practices. Services include master data management services (organizations & persons), data enrichment services (organizations & persons), address and email cleansing services, and more.

This role will collaborate with Product Managers, Architects, Cloud Operations, and the Engineering Team to ensure that projects and applications are delivering the right information to our stakeholders. Further, this role is expected to be a hands-on contributor, able to operate with minimal direction, as well as a technical leader.

Ideally, you are a broadly experienced software engineer who loves working with data and is able to architect and implement solutions across all application layers. We are excited to work in cloud environments and microservices, and hope you are too. Our team is comfortable with several languages and paradigms and always try to choose the technology which is most appropriate for the task. We endeavor to automate our tests and deployments. We look for those interested in relational and non-relational persistence layers and look to combine them for the appropriate usage cases. If you can identify with these traits, we are looking to work with you:

Responsibilities

• Technical leadership and ownership of specific areas of our capabilities

• Engineering software on new and existing data pipelines and systems

• Solution architecture for new and existing data pipelines and systems

• Maintaining and supporting existing data pipelines and systems

• Participating as a proactive team member in an agile environment

• Consulting and interviewing stakeholders to understand requirements for software architecture and implementations

• Testing implementations to guarantee they perform to specifications and requirements

• Providing mentorship to team members

Typical Qualifications

• You have 10+ years’ experience in all facets of software engineering with a strong focus on data

• You are able to fully develop a feature across all data and application layers from inception

• You are able to provide detailed architecture artifacts (L1 / L2 diagrams, sequence diagrams, etc)

• You have strong experience in API architecture (REST) and hands on implementation experience

• You have experience building and deploying applications with AWS or Azure

• You have strong familiarity with at least one type safe language. Familiarity with multiple languages of any type, preferred

• You are familiar with different programming paradigms (e.g. OOP vs Functional) and have worked through a cross section of the software engineering spectrum (APIs, Front-end, Backend, Data layers, Service layers, etc.)

• You aren’t dogmatic about a particular programming language. Language agnostic programmers welcome!

• You have a strong sense of ownership with a bias for action

• Experience with CI/CD and familiarity TDD/BDD. Preferably you have concrete examples of each

• Strong experience using and designing for relational databases

• You aren’t afraid to try new technologies, languages, or engineering challenges

• You have expert communication and cooperation skills

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively across an organization

• Desire to investigate and follow best practices

• Experience and familiarity with the roles/responsibilities of Scrum and Kanban

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

• Eagerness to learn and share knowledge with a good attitude!

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong experience in Python and AWS

• Strong experience in distributed and cloud architecture patterns

• Experience with JVM

• Terraform or CloudFormation

• Non-relational DB experience (Neo4j, Cassandra, Mongo, DynamoDB, etc.)

• Hadoop ecosystem

• NodeJS

• Scala

• Elasticsearch

• Snowflake

• dbt

About Autodesk

With Autodesk software, you have the power to Make Anything. The future of making is here, bringing with it radical changes in the way things are designed, made, and used. It’s innovating architecture, engineering, and construction, manufacturing, and media and entertainment. With the right knowledge and tools, this is your opportunity as well.

Our software is used by everyone – from design professionals, engineers and architects to digital artists, students and hobbyists. We constantly explore new ways to integrate all dimensions of diversity across our employees, customers, partners, and communities. Our ultimate goal is to expand opportunities for anyone to imagine, design, and make a better world.