Job Requisition ID #

25WD86321

Position Overview

Autodesk's Platform Services and Emerging Technology (PSET) team is hiring a Principal Platform Developer with experience automating large-scale cloud infrastructure services. In this exciting role, you will help us automate a robust and scalable data platform used by numerous teams across the company. Reporting to our Software Developer Manager for Platform Infrastructure, you'll help us tackle tough problems and improve our platform's reliability, resiliency, and scalability. If you enjoy developing high quality and resilient systems and want to make a big impact with data at Autodesk, we want to meet you!

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and operate highly reliable large-scale data lake

Partner closely with Product teams to understand requirements and design new capabilities that go directly into customer's hands

Build and scale a data platform infrastructure that powers batch and real-time data processing of billions of records daily

Automate and administer big data applications and services on cloud

Help drive observability into the health of our data infrastructure and understanding of system behavior

Guide initiatives to enable best practices across infrastructure, deployments, automation, and accessibility

Set technical directions and influence cross-functional teams

Ensure operational excellence of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding reliability, availability, and performance

Develop and implement security best practices at the data, application, infrastructure, and network layers

Minimum Qualifications

10+ years of hands-on direct internal experience in large-scale data intensive distributed systems, especially in query engines, object storage, data warehouse, data lake, data analytics, SQL/NoSQL databases, distributed file systems and data platform infrastructure

Experience with Apache Iceberg, Parquet, Spark, Hive, Presto, Trino, and Avro

Experience provisioning and managing orchestration tools like Airflow

Excellent coding skills and experience in Python, Unix shell scripting

Experience building, implementing and automating APIs

Experience building code-driven infrastructure on AWS through end-to-end automation including integration tests and unit tests

Experience with Self-service platform offering by building APIs to deploy Cloud resources

Demonstrated experience with EKS, EMR, S3, IAM, Networking and other AWS services

Experience with observability tools (such as, Hive, Spark, Presto, Jenkins, CloudOS, Datadog)

Experience communicating solutions and resolutions with technical and non-technical audiences

Willingness to participate in professional development activities to stay current on industry knowledge and excitement about breaking the status quo by seeking innovative solutions

Experience with public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Computer Science degree (or equivalent experience will be considered)

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Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For Canada-BC based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $131,500 and $180,840. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location, and may exceed this range. In addition to base salaries, we also have a significant emphasis on annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.

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