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Position overview

Autodesk is looking for a Software Architect to join our Platform Services and Emerging Technologies organization. The team delivers high-value, exabyte-scale and cloud data platform components powering desktop, mobile, and web products. This enables our product teams to build cohesive in-product data experiences, our partners to integrate and expand our data, and our end-users to work with their data across all Autodesk products. You will report to the Senior Director, System Design & Architecture. In this role, you will help build highly scalable data services to support Autodesk Data. You'll also be a technical leader for multiple teams. You will work with other software architects and product managers across the company to build new platforms, product offerings and experiences.

Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and technical vision of building and operating highly scalable, distributed, data intensive micro-services

• Champion adopting industry best practices to push the development standards within the team and in the larger organization

• Align the technical direction with business needs, leading the team to make the correct compromises between short-term business opportunity and long-term technical vision

• Lead the Domain Modeling of complex systems that manage different Data intensive workloads including Geometry, Visualization, and other Design and Make processes

• Help to map Domain Models into Data Services and Storage techniques that can scale to millions of users

• Help to hire, mentor Engineers, help build fast-growing and high-performing teams

• Work with multiple teams, perform thorough design and code reviews, drive best practices to clean and maintainable code

Minimum Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience

• Strong Computer Science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and data management. Conversant in multiple programming languages

• Thorough knowledge of multi-threading, concurrency, and parallel processing concepts

• Exceptional proficiency in Java or Golang or similar programming language

• 12+ years of experience in building and running large scale systems professionally and can point to things worked on

• 3+ years of experience in a technical leadership or architect role, leading design of complex systems

• Deep understanding of database systems (e.g. MySQL, Cassandra) including scalability, performance, and consistency characteristics

• Expertise with modern technology stacks, API design, microservices, stream processing and designing for resilience and operational excellence

• Strong communicator. You enjoy synthesizing, simplifying, and articulating complex problems to different types of audience, including executives

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise in Domain object modeling, Data Modeling and making database choices

• Expertise in Cloud Infrastructure platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure

• Familiar with offline-first application architectures for Desktop and Mobile applications

• Contributed to open-source projects and/or research in large scale data and distributed systems

• Experience in monitoring and improving Reliability of a complex system at scale

• Aware of Security and Compliance challenges in Cloud products and/or platforms

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About Autodesk
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.

We take great pride in our culture here at Autodesk – our Culture Code is at the core of everything we do. Our values and ways of working help our people thrive and realize their potential, which leads to even better outcomes for our customers.

When you’re an Autodesker, you can be your whole, authentic self and do meaningful work that helps build a better future for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!

Salary transparency

Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location. In addition to base salaries, we also have a significant emphasis on discretionary annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock or long-term incentive cash grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.

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

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