Sr Principal Engineer

Autodesk•Toronto, ON

About The Position

Welcome to Autodesk! The world’s innovators, designers, engineers, builders, and creators trust Autodesk to help them design and make a better world for all. Autodesk’s Design and Make Platform empowers everyone, everywhere to design and make anything. From the buildings we live and work in, to the cars we drive and the bridges we drive over. From the products we use and technology we rely on, to the movies and games that inspire us. Everything around us is made using Autodesk software. Autodesk’s leading Design and Make Platform offers customers the technology to help them create the world around us, and the critical insights and data to deliver better outcomes for their business and the planet. At Autodesk, we celebrate all the real-world problem solvers, creative rebels, and innovators who are driven to improve the reality around us. Because we don’t believe in waiting for progress; we believe in making it. When you’re an Autodesker, you can be your whole, authentic self and do meaningful work that helps build a better future for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us! We are looking for a Sr. Principal Engineer for Search Infrastructure within Autodesk Platform Services. In this role, you will help to build modern and scalable Search Platform that powers the search experiences across Autodesk’s Industry Clouds – Fusion, Forma and Flow.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent practical work experience
15+ years of experience in leading design of complex systems and hands-on development into Java, AWS
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 including Scalability, Performance, Reliability, Security and Consistency characteristics
Experience in building multi-tenant SaaS architectures and have deep appreciation for Platform and API-first mindset
Expertise with modern technology stacks, API design, microservices, stream processing and designing for resilience and operational excellence

Nice To Haves

Exposure to Information Retrieval with hands on experience in Lucene/ElasticSearch/OpenSearch
Exposure to Vector Databases and ML Infrastructure
Exposure to Knowledge Graph/ Graph Databases
Expertise in Cloud Infrastructure platforms such as AWS
Experience in monitoring and improving Reliability of a complex system at scale
Exposure to managing Security and Compliance challenges in Cloud products and/or platforms
Strong communicator. You enjoy synthesizing, simplifying, and articulating complex problems to others
A team-player, with a result-focused passion to deliver an overall solution
You embrace perpetual learning and are always ready for a new challenge

Responsibilities

Lead the software architecture and system design of highly scalable, distributed, data intensive micro-services
Partner closely with product teams and leadership in defining strategic technical roadmap, communicate the strategy in various forums, and make it a reality
Demonstrate high levels of ownership and accountability and work closely with engineering teams to deliver consistently
Align the technical direction with business needs, leading the team to make the correct choices between short-term business opportunity and long-term technical vision
Champion adopting industry best practices to push the development standards within the team and in the larger organization
Help to hire, mentor engineers, help build fast-growing and high-performing teams