Principal Engineer(Java/C++

Job Requisition ID #

25WD93212

Position Overview

Join Autodesk's Platform Organization within the Product Design and Manufacturing Solutions division, contributing to the Fusion 360 family of products. As a full-stack Principal Engineer, you will collaboratively design, build, and maintain scalable, cloud-native solutions using AWS and modern DevOps practices. You'll work across backend (Java/Spring, C++) and frontend (React) systems, leveraging containerization, infrastructure-as-code, and automated testing to deliver high-quality features. You'll collaborate with a technically proficient, diverse, and supportive team in Toronto and worldwide, helping drive developer productivity, platform consistency, and customer value.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to software design and architecture by injecting your cloud expertise into the entire development lifecycle.

• Lead planning, design, development, and testing of key features/functions delivered via applications and services.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand requirements, understand use cases and build towards a cohesive technical strategy. Adapt communication style to persuade various stakeholders.

• Build strategic partnerships with key cross-organizational teams to ensure that your application/service leverages capabilities offered by the platform.

• Strong problem-solving skills and capability to work on complex systems.

• Uphold team standards by championing engineering best practices.

• Hands on software development for products that will perform at scale, be supportable, and be extensible.

• Write code that is tested, readable, and maintainable.

• Perform code reviews, evaluate implementations, and provide feedback for tool improvements.

• Automate processes where possible and create new technologies when needed.

• Crosstrain and mentor teammates

• Participate in on-call rotation to support production systems.

Minimum Qualifications

• Great team player with about 8 to 12 years of total industry experience

• Hands-on software development experience in Java, Spring

• Production experience in large-scale cloud-based Infrastructure (AWS preferred)

• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, preferably DynamoDB and MySQL/Aurora

• Experience consuming, designing, and implementing REST APIs

• Working knowledge of build automation and CI/CD pipelines

• Experience working with container-based solutions

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise with Cloud platforms like AWS, Azure or GCP

• Expertise data storage such as MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis, etc.

• Passionate about building and motivating highly skilled engineering teams.

• Experience driving organizational strategic initiatives.

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About Autodesk

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