Senior Principal Engineer for Search Infrastructure

Position Overview

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 Senior 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.

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

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors 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
• Exposure to Information Retrieval with hands on experience in Lucene/Elasticsearch/OpenSearch
• Exposure to Vector Databases and ML Infrastructure
• Expertise in Cloud Infrastructure platforms such as AWS
• 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
• 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

The Ideal Candidate

• 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