Description:
We are looking for a Distinguished Engineer/Architect for our Product Data platform within Autodesk Platform Services. In this role, you will design, build and scale our data processing and OLTP systems to power futuristic Search and Visualization experiences for millions of users worldwide. You will partner with other technical leaders and product managers across Autodesk to create futuristic data offerings and experiences.
Responsibilities
- Lead the software architecture and system design of highly scalable, distributed and futuristic platform capabilities.
- Partner closely with other product teams and the leadership in defining strategic technical roadmap, communicate the strategy in various forums, and make it a reality.
- 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.
- Help to hire, mentor Engineers, help build fast-growing and high-performing teams
Basic Qualifications
- BS in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience.
- 15+ years of experience in leading design of complex systems and hands-on development.
- 5+ years of experience in a technical leadership role for a large and distributed organization in designing systems and scaling them to millions of users
- Thorough understanding of Distributed Systems concepts, Scalability/Reliability/Security challenges.
- Deep knowledge and hands-on experience in Relational/Columnar Databases (including internals), Stream Processing and Near-Realtime workloads.
- Experience in building multi-tenant SaaS architectures and have deep appreciation for Platform and API-first mindset.
- Proficient in API Design using REST, GraphQL, or gRPC and conversant in multiple programming languages.
- Systems thinker with a strong desire to understand how complex systems work.
- Strong and effective communicator - written and verbal - synthesizing, simplifying, and articulating complex problems to different levels of audience, including executives.