Software Architect

Position Overview

Autodesk is looking for a Software Architect to join the Autodesk Platform Services team. The team delivers high-value, exabyte-scale and cloud data platform components powering desktop, 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 Manager, Software Development Manager based in Pune, and the role is hybrid based in Pune. In this role, you will help build highly scalable data services to support Autodesk Data. You will work with other software architects and product managers across the company to build new platforms, product offerings and experiences.

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 Modelling 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

Lead the resolution of complex problems within own discipline, often with the need to integrate cross-functional processes and outcomes

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

Anticipate business challenges that could have significant impact on Autodesk's operational and financial success, and proactively develop solutions to address them

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, DynamoDB, Cassandra) including scalability, performance, and consistency characteristics

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

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 modelling, Data Modelling and making database choices

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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