Principal Software Engineer
AI summary of the role
Autodesk's Digital Experience Engineering team is building a next-generation headless, source-agnostic content platform that ingests, normalizes, versions, and delivers content to millions of customers.
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What you’ll do
- Set the technical direction for the Content Platform's core subsystems and drive architectural alignment across the multi-repo workspace
- Translate ambiguous product and partner requirements into concrete platform capabilities, schema extensions, and workflow patterns
- Design and review complex changes to the workflow framework and single-table DynamoDB model, ensuring correctness under concurrency, versioning, and locale semantics
- Lead cross-team initiatives spanning ingestion, workflow orchestration, delivery, and content modeling; resolve systemic issues in reliability, performance, and developer productivity
What you’ll bring
- 8+ years of professional software development experience, including significant time at senior or staff level designing and operating distributed backend systems in production
- Deep proficiency in Python, including experience designing libraries and frameworks consumed by other engineering teams
- Hands-on experience designing and operating workflow orchestration systems (Temporal, Cadence, Airflow, Step Functions, or equivalent) at production scale
- Strong expertise with AWS, including Lambda, DynamoDB (single-table design and GSIs), S3, and event-driven integrations
Technologies
Python · Temporal · Cadence · Airflow · AWS Lambda · DynamoDB · S3 · FastAPI · REST API · Step Functions
About Autodesk
Maker of design and make software for architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, and media, with 97% recurring subscription revenue.
Public · 5000+ people
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Job Requisition ID # 26WD97962 Position Overview As a global leader in 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software, Autodesk helps people imagine, design and create a better world. Autodesk accelerates better design through an unparalleled depth of experience and a broad portfolio of software to give customers the power to solve their design, business, and environmental challenges. In addition to designers, architects, engineers, and media and entertainment professionals, Autodesk helps students, educators, and casual creators unlock their creative ideas through user-friendly applications. Autodesk's Digital Experience Engineering team is building the next-generation Content Platform. This is a headless, source-agnostic content pipeline that ingests, normalizes, versions, and delivers content powering experiences used by millions of customers worldwide. We are looking for a
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Job Requisition ID # 26WD97962 Position Overview As a global leader in 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software, Autodesk helps people imagine, design and create a better world. Autodesk accelerates better design through an unparalleled depth of experience and a broad portfolio of software to give customers the power to solve their design, business, and environmental challenges. In addition to designers, architects, engineers, and media and entertainment professionals, Autodesk helps students, educators, and casual creators unlock their creative ideas through user-friendly applications. Autodesk's Digital Experience Engineering team is building the next-generation Content Platform. This is a headless, source-agnostic content pipeline that ingests, normalizes, versions, and delivers content powering experiences used by millions of customers worldwide. We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to provide deep technical leadership on this platform and to translate complex content, delivery, and orchestration requirements into a coherent, scalable architecture. As a Principal Engineer on the Content Platform, you will be a recognized subject-matter expert on distributed orchestration, schema-driven data pipelines, and high-throughput content delivery on AWS. You will own architecture decisions that span multiple repositories and you will partner with product, a [... source excerpt omitted ...] Set the technical direction for the Content Platform's core subsystems and drive architectural alignment across the multi-repo workspace Translate ambiguous product and partner requirements into concrete platform capabilities, schema extensions, and workflow patterns, and document the tradeoffs for engineering and product leadership Design and review complex changes to the workflow framework (BaseWorkflow, APIWorkflow, annotation-driven fan-out, registries) and the single-table DynamoDB model, ensuring correctness under concurrency, versioning, and locale semantics Lead cross-team initiatives that span ingestion, workflow orchestration, delivery, and content modeling; identify a [... source excerpt omitted ...] ex technical problems. Mentor senior and mid-level engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and architecture deep dives, raising the technical bar across the team Minimum Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience 8+ years of professional software development experience, including significant time at a senior or staff level designing and operating distributed backend systems in production Deep proficiency in Python, including experience designing libraries and frameworks consumed by other engineering teams Hands-on experience designing and operating workflow orchestration systems (Temporal, Cadence, Airflow,
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