Principal Software Engineer, Salesforce

About the position

Autodesk is looking for an experienced Principal AWS Developer to join our dynamic team. As a AWS Developer, you will play a pivotal role in designing, coding, testing, and implementing AWS solutions that align with our business needs. You will collaborate with various stakeholders to ensure the AWS platform effectively supports our operations and business processes. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in AWS, CI/CD pipelines, and Git Administration and will play a crucial role in automating and optimizing our development and deployment processes. If you are passionate about ensuring the reliability and scalability of our infrastructure while promoting a culture of collaboration and innovation, we want to hear from you. Autodesk offers a hybrid work experience. You will report to the Senior Engineering Manager and will work from San Francisco location.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on experience with AWS (or another cloud provider's) technologies, such as SQS, S3, DynamoDB, IAM, and Lambda etc
• Experience building scalable systems and services in the cloud, including calling other REST services from within a REST service
• Hands-on experience in Java, Node.js, Python development along with strong problem-solving skills.
• Develop backend services in AWS using any programming language, preferably Python
• Develop Integration applications/micro services
• Develop API proxies using Apigee/aws API gateways
• Contribute as a strong technical lead, who can guide the team through the solutions after reviewing with the Solution Architect
• Drive and improve performance, scalability and security of applications
• Actively participate in code reviews of own code and that of peers
• Write test and debug programs and create Technical documentation
• Work in fast paced development using agile methodologies
• Adhere to Autodesk internal quality standards.
• Experience in building, running and monitoring SaaS applications at large scale
• Experience with multi-repo GIT code bases, REST-based web services, testing frameworks such as Blazemeter, shell scripts, automated CI/CD pipelines
• Creating and enforcing engineering standards and practices, ensuring that team adheres to high-quality development principles
• Architect, design, and implement high-quality, clean, and efficient code following best practices and development guidelines
• Promoting a culture of metrics-based analysis and decision-making within the team
• Ensure delivery of high-quality solutions by actively participating in quality assurance efforts
• Working closely with stakeholders and product teams, requiring excellent collaborative skills and the ability to coordinate efforts across globally distributed teams
• Troubleshoot and resolve complicated technical issues, providing guidance and solutions to the team
• Proactively and continuously evaluate and address issues related to performance, stability, scalability, and extensibility of the systems
• Research, prototype, and implement new ideas, technologies, and patterns to solve complex technical challenges
• Deliver results that meet product user stories with a high level of quality and customer satisfaction
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration and delivery of features

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong Hands-on experience with AWS with services such as SQS, S3, DynamoDB, IAM, Lambda, ELB's, AWS RDS, Dynamo DB, AWS API Gateway etc
• Experience designing and building RESTful APIs using Microservices architecture
• Must be proficient in at least one Programming Languages like Python, Java, JRuby, APEX etc.
• Working on Integration with CRM applications will be desired
• Exposure in any Integration Tools like TIBCO, Apigee, ETL, MuleSoft etc is desired
• Demonstrated technical leadership experience such as being an architect or tech lead for high impact projects, comfortable defining technical solution
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills
• An innovative and collaborative approach with a commitment to engaging with engineers

Nice-to-haves

• Experience deciding when to use architectural, integration and software design patterns
• A team-player, self-motivated, autonomous, empathetic with a result-focused passion to deliver an overall solution
• Experience in mentoring peer engineers.

Benefits

• Health and financial benefits
• Time away and everyday wellness
• Competitive compensation package including base salary and annual cash bonuses
• Stock grants
• Comprehensive benefits package