Principal Software Engineer, Buy Experience

Position Overview

Are you excited about solving complex technical challenges and building scalable, highly available services to support millions of users worldwide? Join us at Autodesk!

Autodesk’s Buy Experience team is looking for a talented Principal Software Engineer to help shape the future of our Commerce platform. As part of this high-visibility initiative, you will build and deliver innovative solutions for prospects, customers, and partners. You will play a key role in driving our growth from $5B to $10B+ by improving funnel conversion, enabling hypothesis-driven experimentation, enhancing productivity and automation, and delivering insights and experiences that increase revenue.

Responsibilities

• Develop high-quality, secure, and reliable code following best practices, including unit testing, coding guidelines, and security standards

• Design, implement, test, debug, and document new and existing components to meet business, quality, and operational requirements

• Build and optimize scalable, distributed systems, microservices to support Autodesk’s global Consumption platform

• Participate in code and document reviews to ensure best practices and maintain high code quality

• Follow Agile principles, participate in Scrum ceremonies, and collaborate with peer engineers to estimate, plan, and deliver sprint goals

• Troubleshoot and resolve code-level issues quickly and efficiently

• Lead the architecture and design of secure, scalable, and maintainable software solutions

• Contribute to technical roadmap and technical debt elimination, balancing time, resource, and quality constraints to achieve business and strategic goals and requirements

• Support production deployments, operations, and ongoing maintenance as part of end-to-end platform ownership

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with 3+ years at a Staff/Principal (or equivalent) level owning mission-critical distributed systems

• Proven track record of solving complex technical + business problems at scale (> 5K TPS, global traffic, multi-region fail-over)

• Mastery of system-design fundamentals—partitioning, consistency models, caching strategies, observability, security

• Ability to influence architecturally across multiple teams and time zones; excellent written & verbal communication (you turn RFCs into executive-friendly one-pagers)

• Experience driving production excellence—SLIs/SLOs, chaos testing, cost governance

• Strong proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Python, Node.js, and Go

• Strong Experience with AWS services such as Lambda, Fargate, SQS, DynamoDB, Aurora and other cloud technologies

• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to learn new technologies quickly

Preferred Qualifications

• Consumption-based revenue model, payments or fintech background

• Open-source contributions, tech talks, or patents that showcase deep domain expertise

• Experience with AI programming or Agentic programming

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About Autodesk
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