Principal Software Developer - Databases

Autodesk•AMER - Canada - British Columbia - Offsite/Home, SK

1d•CA$131,000 - CA$191,400

About The Position

Autodesk Construction Solutions is looking for a senior technical contributor who brings deep expertise in cloud data infrastructure and uses it to shape how the division manages structured storage. This role sets technical direction across the SRS platform, from database fleet operations to the API abstractions and event contracts that sit on top, and leads high-impact initiatives end-to-end. You'll operate with significant autonomy, influence architecture decisions across teams, and raise the technical bar for how engineering teams build on shared storage infrastructure.

Requirements

6+ years of software engineering in a platform, infrastructure, or data engineering context
5+ years of Kubernetes architecture at scale
7+ years of Terraform experience
7+ years of experience with cloud data technologies
Deep Postgres or DynamoDB experience at scale: fleet-level operations, not application-level use
Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects end-to-end: design through production
Hands-on Kafka or event streaming experience in production; bonus if you've built CDC pipelines (Postgres binlog, DynamoDB Streams, Debezium)
ORM experience at the framework or platform layer: you've built or extended ORM tooling to drive semantic eventing, not just consumed it
Kubernetes CRD hands-on experience: designing or operating controllers/operators that manage platform resources
Strong AWS background: IAM, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, ECS/EKS, multi-region
Able to drive technical alignment across opinionated teams; you've gotten three engineers with different opinions to agree on an approach
Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and GitOps deployment experience
Strong communication and organizational skills; you can influence outcomes across teams, groups, and leadership

Nice To Haves

Experience building or operating a managed Postgres platform
Customer Managed Keys (CMK): AWS KMS key policy design, envelope encryption, or CMK rotation in a regulated environment
Schema catalog, data governance, or data contract experience
Liquibase or equivalent schema migration tooling experience
Helm, ArgoCD, or Harness deployment pipeline experience
Apigee, LLM proxy, or API gateway platform experience
FedRAMP/IL4 compliance context in a cloud environment

Responsibilities

Lead design and implementation of high-impact SRS platform capabilities: event platform CDC integration (Kafka), schema automation, Structured Record Access API, fleet management tooling
Set technical direction for one or more SRS sub-areas: architecture standards, design reviews, raising the bar on how the team builds
Continuously assess SRS cloud platform needs at scale, identify significant risks and gaps, and drive the roadmap to close them
Own and improve fleet-wide operations: capacity management, monitoring and alerting, query tuning, load optimization, and data replication for reporting workloads
Create and institutionalize best practices and health models for the database fleet; use observability tooling and AWS automation to enforce standards consistently across hundreds of managed databases
Build a high-impact network of storage champions across engineering groups, consult directly with product teams and group leads on storage readiness and risk, and select training opportunities that raise engineering capability division-wide
Own reliability for what you build: monitoring, runbooks, on-call response, post-incident learning
Partner with SRS area leadership across managed database platform, DevEx, and data warehousing to sequence work and make cross-team tradeoffs
Drive migration and schema lifecycle initiatives across the fleet, coordinating with product teams, managing rollout risk, validating rollback coverage
Mentor P2/P3 engineers; conduct design and code reviews with real feedback
Represent SRS technical requirements in cross-org forums: architecture review, group leadership
Provide tactical leadership during production emergencies