Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and define architecture for complex, high-impact initiatives spanning multiple systems, services, and teams.
- Design, prototype, implement, review, debug, and operate scalable, reliable, secure, and maintainable production systems.
- Own technically complex initiatives end to end, including production readiness and ongoing operation.
- Improve developer-facing workflows for application creation, API access, documentation, usage visibility, and platform self-service.
- Lead complex production issue resolution and address underlying root causes.
- Advance engineering standards through architecture reviews, design reviews, code reviews, testing, operational readiness, and continuous improvement.
- Use production signals, customer feedback, engineering data, and AI-assisted development tools to improve software quality and productivity.
- Mentor engineers, share technical context, and influence technical decisions across teams without direct authority.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including leadership of technically complex initiatives.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience designing, building, and operating production systems.
- Architecture and system-design experience with complex web applications, API platforms, distributed systems, or comparable production environments.
- Hands-on programming experience with modern backend and/or frontend technologies, cloud services, APIs, data stores, security, and production observability.
- Experience using and evaluating AI-assisted development tools in software engineering workflows.
- Experience delivering initiatives across multiple systems or teams and influencing technical decisions without direct authority.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and improve team effectiveness.
- Preferred experience with cloud-based web applications, developer platforms, APIs at scale, API architecture, security, reliability, scalability, performance, integrations, AI-assisted engineering practices, automation, and globally distributed cross-functional teams.
Benefits
- Canada-based roles list a starting base salary range of $131,000 to $191,400, with offers varying by experience and geographic location.
- The compensation package may include annual cash bonuses, stock grants, and comprehensive benefits.
- The role may require in-person onboarding and/or in-person identity verification.
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About Autodesk
Autodesk is changing how the world is designed and made. Our technology spans architecture, engineering, construction, product design, manufacturing, and media and entertainment. We empower innovators everywhere to solve challenges, big and small. From greener buildings to smarter products and more mesmerizing blockbusters, Autodesk software helps our customers design and make a better world for all. Over 100 million people use Autodesk software, like AutoCAD, Revit, Maya, 3ds Max, Fusion 360, SketchBook, and more, to unlock their creativity and solve important design, business, and environmental challenges. Our software runs on both personal computers and mobile devices. It taps the infinite computing power of the cloud to help teams around the world collaborate, design, simulate, and fabricate their ideas in 3D. We provide exceptional compensation and benefit packages, and we’d love for you to join us. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, gender, disability, veteran status, or other protected category. To see our culture in action, check out #AutodeskLife. We are headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area and have over 10,000 employees worldwide.