Senior Principal Engineer (Full Stack/Platform)

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Position Overview
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Are you energised by shaping technical direction and building platform-scale systems that power experiences for millions of users? Autodesk’s Growth Experience Technology (GET) — APAC Engineering is hiring a Senior Principal Engineer to own architecture and delivery for high-impact platform initiatives across commerce, site experience (autodesk.com), search and GenAI. You’ll set the technical vision, design and deliver highly available, scalable distributed systems and front-end platforms, and act as a force-multiplier across multiple teams to convert strategic product goals into measurable business outcomes. 

In this role you will solve hard engineering problems — from next-generation e-commerce engines that enable experimentation and personalisation, to generative-search and vector search platforms, messaging and content services, unified testing and observability, and API-monetization frameworks. You’ll partner closely with product, architecture, SRE and engineering leadership to define pragmatic roadmaps, deliver resilient platforms (workflow orchestration, cloud-native micro services) and mentor senior engineers so teams move faster and with higher confidence.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical vision and architecture for multiple services/platforms, translating product strategy and OKRs into measurable technical roadmaps

• Lead design and delivery of highly available, secure, and performant production systems (microservices, orchestration, platform APIs and front-end experiences)

• Drive cross-organizational decisions on architecture, tooling and frameworks, ensuring consistency, reuse and API quality across teams

• Produce and review production-quality code, design documents, runbooks and lead major cutovers, migrations and rollouts

• Define and enforce platform standards for CI/CD, test automation, observability, SLOs/SLIs, security, cost controls and autoscaling

• Champion comprehensive automated testing (unit, integration, regression, load) and continuous delivery pipelines 

• Own operational readiness and reliability in partnership with SRE: monitoring, alerting, incident response, backup/restore and capacity planning

• Partner with Product, Architects and Engineering Managers to prioritize work, manage dependencies and align delivery to business outcomes (conversion, experimentation, search quality)

• Mentor and grow senior engineers and engineering managers; run design reviews and build technical leadership across the organization

• Evaluate and adopt new technologies (e.g., Temporal, vector search, GenAI), proactively identify risks/technical debt, and drive remediation and continuous improvement

Minimum Qualifications

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

• 12+ years of software engineering experience building large-scale, production distributed systems and web platforms

• Proven track record as a systems architect and recognized expert in at least one technical domain (e.g., infrastructure, distributed systems, developer tooling)

• Hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures, especially AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, RDS, Lambda, CloudFormation, CloudWatch) and designing resilient, multi-region systems

• Deep experience designing and building microservices and RESTful APIs, orchestration/workflow systems (Temporal or equivalent), containers (Docker), Kubernetes and service deployment patterns

• Strong full-stack web expertise: Node.js, server-side Java (where applicable), modern JavaScript (ES6+), React (production), HTML5/CSS3, responsive design, and build/tooling (npm, Webpack)

• Hands-on with CI/CD, automation and release pipelines (Jenkins/GitHub Actions, Artifactory), and developing/testing frameworks and QA automation

• Operational excellence / SRE skills: observability, SLOs/SLIs, monitoring/alerting, incident response, capacity planning, backup/restore and production debugging

• Experience with platform integrations and domain concerns (search/ML or GenAI integrations, vector search, high-scale commerce/checkout systems, eCommerce, Salesforce APIs) and familiarity with security/PCI considerations

• Demonstrated leadership in complex, multi-team environments: excellent written and verbal communication, ability to mentor senior engineers and EMs, and sound judgment balancing short-term delivery with long-term architectural vision

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