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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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