Principal Engineer (Search, Java, AWS)
Quick Summary
data structures, algorithms, distributed systems,
Responsibilities
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Lead the design, development and operations of highly scalable, distributed, data intensive micro-services
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Champion adopting industry best practices to push the development standards within the team
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Partner with Software Architects, Product Managers and Engineering Managers to design technical solutions to drive business outcomes
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Help to meet SLAs of large-scale micro-services with monitoring, troubleshooting and optimizations
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Lead detection, recovery and postmortems of production incidents
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Help to hire, mentor Engineers, help build fast-growing and high-performing teams
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Perform thorough design and code reviews, drive best practices to clean and maintainable code
Requirements
~1 min readBS or MS in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience
10+ years of experience in building and running large scale systems
Strong Computer Science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and data management
Exposure to Information Retrieval with hands on experience in Lucene/ElasticSearch/OpenSearch
Thorough knowledge of multi-threading, concurrency, and parallel processing concepts
Exceptional proficiency in Java or similar programming language
Expertise in Cloud Infrastructure platforms such as AWS
Thorough understanding of database systems (e.g. MySQL, DynamoDB) including scalability, performance, and consistency characteristics
Expertise with modern technology stacks, API design, microservices, stream processing and designing for resilience and operational excellence
Exposure to Vector Databases and ML Infrastructure
Experience in monitoring and improving reliability of a complex system at scale
Aware of Security and Compliance challenges in Cloud products and/or platforms
Strong communicator. You enjoy synthesizing, simplifying, and articulating complex problems to others
A team-player, with a result-focused passion to deliver an overall solution
You embrace perpetual learning and are always ready for a new challenge
Welcome to Autodesk! Amazing things are created every day with our software – from the greenest buildings and cleanest cars to the smartest factories and biggest hit movies. We help innovators turn their ideas into reality, transforming not only how things are made, but what can be made.
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Listing Details
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- July 8, 2026
- Last seen
- July 8, 2026
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