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26WD97363
Position Overview
We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer – Backend to join Autodesk’s Enterprise Data Management (EDM) organization within the COO-GET Engineering group. This is a senior individual contributor role operating at the Principal (P4) level, expected to drive technology direction for large, complex, and business-critical backend and distributed systems.
This role is anchored in backend software engineering excellence: designing, building, and evolving scalable services, APIs, and event-driven systems that operate at enterprise scale. As a Principal Engineer, you will work with high autonomy and ambiguity, shape long-term architecture, and influence multiple teams and domains. Familiarity with data engineering concepts is valuable, but backend systems, service design, and distributed systems are the core competencies.
You will function as a technical authority and force multiplier—guiding design decisions, setting standards, and ensuring Autodesk’s core data services are reliable, resilient, and evolvable over time.
Responsibilities
- Provide principal-level technical leadership across multiple backend and platform teams, shaping architecture and technical strategy beyond a single squad or service
- Author and evolve critical backend systems and APIs, ensuring they meet long-term scalability, reliability, and extensibility goals
- Lead design of distributed, event-driven systems, addressing consistency, ordering, failure handling, replay, idempotency, rate limiting, and backpressure
- Establish and drive service and API standards across domains, including schema design, versioning strategies, backward compatibility, and consumer experience
- Act as a technical decision-maker for cross-team initiatives; evaluate tradeoffs and make durable architectural choices aligned with business priorities
- Drive operational excellence across systems you influence: observability, alerting strategy, incident response, post-incident learning, and systemic remediation
- Introduce and reinforce engineering best practices for design reviews, code quality, testing, CI/CD, and production readiness across multiple teams
- Mentor senior engineers and emerging technical leaders; raise the bar through influence, example, and coaching rather than direct management
- Partner deeply with product, data, and platform leaders to translate ambiguous business problems into clear, actionable technical solutions
- Remain hands-on where impact is highest: complex system design, critical implementations, architectural refactors, and high-severity incident resolution
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant depth in backend and distributed systems
- Demonstrated expertise building and operating backend services and APIs in production environments at scale
- Strong experience with distributed systems design, including asynchronous processing, messaging, eventual consistency, and fault tolerance
- Deep hands-on experience with AWS and cloud-native architectures (compute, storage, messaging, IAM, observability, scaling patterns)
- Proven ownership of mission-critical systems, including design accountability, operational responsibility, and long-term maintainability
- Strong software engineering fundamentals: system design, service-level data modeling, API design, automated testing, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code
- Track record of influencing architecture and engineering outcomes across multiple teams without formal authority
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building enterprise platform services consumed by many internal and/or external teams
- Familiarity with data engineering or data platform ecosystems (e.g., streaming pipelines, data warehouses such as Snowflake) as a producer or advanced consumer of data services
- Experience with event streaming and messaging platforms (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis, or equivalents)
- Background in domains such as master data management, identity resolution, data enrichment, or data quality
- Experience integrating backend services with analytics, search/indexing, or ML/AI platforms
- Prior experience operating in large, complex organizations where systems span multiple teams, regions, and business units
Benefits
From health and financial benefits to time away and everyday wellness, we give Autodeskers the best, so they can do their best work. Learn more about our benefits in the U.S. by visiting https://benefits.autodesk.com/
Salary transparency
Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $139,000 and $249,260. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location, and may exceed this range. In addition to base salaries, our compensation package may include annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.
Equal Employment Opportunity
At Autodesk, we're building a diverse workplace and an inclusive culture to give more people the chance to imagine, design, and make a better world. Autodesk is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic. We also consider for employment all qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.
Diversity & Belonging
We take pride in cultivating a culture of belonging where everyone can thrive. Learn more here: https://www.autodesk.com/company/diversity-and-belonging
Are you an existing contractor or consultant with Autodesk?
Please search for open jobs and apply internally (not on this external site).
Job Requisition ID #
26WD97363
Position Overview
We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer – Backend to join Autodesk’s Enterprise Data Management (EDM) organization within the COO-GET Engineering group. This is a senior individual contributor role operating at the Principal (P4) level, expected to drive technology direction for large, complex, and business-critical backend and distributed systems.
This role is anchored in backend software engineering excellence: designing, building, and evolving scalable services, APIs, and event-driven systems that operate at enterprise scale. As a Principal Engineer, you will work with high autonomy and ambiguity, shape long-term architecture, and influence multiple teams and domains. Familiarity with data engineering concepts is valuable, but backend systems, service design, and distributed systems are the core competencies.
You will function as a technical authority and force multiplier—guiding design decisions, setting standards, and ensuring Autodesk’s core data services are reliable, resilient, and evolvable over time.
Responsibilities
- Provide principal-level technical leadership across multiple backend and platform teams, shaping architecture and technical strategy beyond a single squad or service
- Author and evolve critical backend systems and APIs, ensuring they meet long-term scalability, reliability, and extensibility goals
- Lead design of distributed, event-driven systems, addressing consistency, ordering, failure handling, replay, idempotency, rate limiting, and backpressure
- Establish and drive service and API standards across domains, including schema design, versioning strategies, backward compatibility, and consumer experience
- Act as a technical decision-maker for cross-team initiatives; evaluate tradeoffs and make durable architectural choices aligned with business priorities
- Drive operational excellence across systems you influence: observability, alerting strategy, incident response, post-incident learning, and systemic remediation
- Introduce and reinforce engineering best practices for design reviews, code quality, testing, CI/CD, and production readiness across multiple teams
- Mentor senior engineers and emerging technical leaders; raise the bar through influence, example, and coaching rather than direct management
- Partner deeply with product, data, and platform leaders to translate ambiguous business problems into clear, actionable technical solutions
- Remain hands-on where impact is highest: complex system design, critical implementations, architectural refactors, and high-severity incident resolution
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant depth in backend and distributed systems
- Demonstrated expertise building and operating backend services and APIs in production environments at scale
- Strong experience with distributed systems design, including asynchronous processing, messaging, eventual consistency, and fault tolerance
- Deep hands-on experience with AWS and cloud-native architectures (compute, storage, messaging, IAM, observability, scaling patterns)
- Proven ownership of mission-critical systems, including design accountability, operational responsibility, and long-term maintainability
- Strong software engineering fundamentals: system design, service-level data modeling, API design, automated testing, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code
- Track record of influencing architecture and engineering outcomes across multiple teams without formal authority
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building enterprise platform services consumed by many internal and/or external teams
- Familiarity with data engineering or data platform ecosystems (e.g., streaming pipelines, data warehouses such as Snowflake) as a producer or advanced consumer of data services
- Experience with event streaming and messaging platforms (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis, or equivalents)
- Background in domains such as master data management, identity resolution, data enrichment, or data quality
- Experience integrating backend services with analytics, search/indexing, or ML/AI platforms
- Prior experience operating in large, complex organizations where systems span multiple teams, regions, and business units
Benefits
From health and financial benefits to time away and everyday wellness, we give Autodeskers the best, so they can do their best work. Learn more about our benefits in the U.S. by visiting https://benefits.autodesk.com/
Salary transparency
Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $139,000 and $249,260. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location, and may exceed this range. In addition to base salaries, our compensation package may include annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.
Equal Employment Opportunity
At Autodesk, we're building a diverse workplace and an inclusive culture to give more people the chance to imagine, design, and make a better world. Autodesk is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic. We also consider for employment all qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.
Diversity & Belonging
We take pride in cultivating a culture of belonging where everyone can thrive. Learn more here: https://www.autodesk.com/company/diversity-and-belonging
Are you an existing contractor or consultant with Autodesk?
Please search for open jobs and apply internally (not on this external site).
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Align your portfolio with Autodesk's product stack
Autodesk builds tools like AutoCAD, Revit, and Fusion 360. Highlighting backend, cloud infrastructure, or 3D graphics experience in your portfolio signals direct relevance and moves you past the initial resume screen faster.
Verify your visa type before applying
Autodesk sponsors multiple visa categories, but your eligibility depends on your current status. If you're on F-1 OPT, confirm your STEM extension window aligns with their typical hiring timeline before submitting applications.
Target roles flagged as sponsorship-open on Migrate Mate
Sponsorship availability isn't always visible on Autodesk's own careers page. Use Migrate Mate to filter Software Engineer roles at Autodesk that are verified for sponsorship, saving time you'd otherwise spend chasing dead ends.
Prepare for a multi-round technical process
Autodesk's Software Engineer interviews typically include system design rounds alongside coding assessments. Practicing distributed systems and API design questions reflects the architecture-level thinking their product teams expect.
Understand how your offer timing affects H-1B filing
If you need H-1B sponsorship, offers finalized after the April lottery registration window mean a full year's wait until the next cycle. Getting an offer in place by January gives Autodesk's immigration team enough runway to register you.
Request a PERM-aware conversation with your recruiter early
If Green Card sponsorship matters to you, raise it before you sign. Autodesk's immigration teams handle PERM labor certifications, but DOL processing can take years, and knowing your employer's policy upfront shapes your long-term planning.
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Does Autodesk sponsor H-1B visas for Software Engineers?
Yes, Autodesk sponsors H-1B visas for Software Engineers. The company has an established immigration program that works with legal counsel to file H-1B petitions for qualifying candidates. If you're subject to the H-1B cap, timing your offer to align with the April registration window is critical, as approved petitions don't take effect until October 1.
How do I apply for Software Engineer jobs at Autodesk?
Applications go through Autodesk's careers portal at autodesk.com/careers. Search by role title and location, then apply directly. If you need visa sponsorship, use Migrate Mate to identify which open Software Engineer postings at Autodesk are confirmed sponsorship-eligible before applying, so you're not spending time on roles that won't move forward for international candidates.
Which visa types does Autodesk commonly use for Software Engineer roles?
Autodesk sponsors a range of visa types for Software Engineers, including H-1B, E-3 for Australian citizens, TN for Canadian and Mexican nationals, F-1 OPT and CPT for students, and J-1 for qualifying exchange visitors. For permanent residency, the company also supports EB-2 and EB-3 Green Card pathways through PERM labor certification with the DOL.
What qualifications does Autodesk expect for sponsored Software Engineer roles?
Most Software Engineer positions at Autodesk require a bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, software engineering, or a closely related field. This matters for visa purposes too, since H-1B and E-3 sponsorship both require the role to qualify as a specialty occupation under USCIS standards, meaning a degree in a relevant technical field is part of the eligibility baseline.
How do I manage the timeline between a job offer and visa filing at Autodesk?
Once you have a verbal offer, Autodesk's immigration team typically initiates the sponsorship process through their legal counsel. For H-1B transfers from another employer, USCIS portability rules allow you to start work as soon as the petition is received. For new H-1B cap cases, expect several months between offer and your October 1 start date, so plan your current visa status accordingly.
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