Principal Software Developer - Databases

Job Requisition ID #

26WD99177

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26WD99177, Principal Software Developer - Databases

About Autodesk Construction Solutions @ Autodesk

Autodesk has fully reimagined the construction business for the digital age, enabling companies to address the most important challenges they face today while preparing for new ways of working in the future. The Autodesk Construction Solutions (ACS) portfolio connects the office, trailer, and field, enabling customers to move seamlessly through each phase of the construction lifecycle from design and preconstruction to construction, turnover, and operations. General contractors, subcontractors, and owners around the world rely on ACS to win more work, enhance collaboration, speed up decision-making, reduce risk, and improve overall project outcomes.

The Structured Record Storage group owns the shared data persistence layer for AEC: automated database fleet management, streaming to warehousing for analytics and ML, and the developer abstractions that decouple service logic from storage technology. We manage the entire database fleet (Postgres and DynamoDB, all production regions), own schema lifecycle from migration through regional deployment, and emit semantic events into Kafka so downstream teams never build raw reconstruction apps. SRS is a platform-grade function. We define the storage standards, enforce them, and build the tooling that makes compliance automatic instead of manual.

Position Overview

Autodesk Construction Solutions is looking for a senior technical contributor who brings deep expertise in cloud data infrastructure and uses it to shape how the division manages structured storage. This role sets technical direction across the SRS platform, from database fleet operations to the API abstractions and event contracts that sit on top, and leads high-impact initiatives end-to-end. You'll operate with significant autonomy, influence architecture decisions across teams, and raise the technical bar for how engineering teams build on shared storage infrastructure.

Responsibilities

Lead design and implementation of high-impact SRS platform capabilities: event platform CDC integration (Kafka), schema automation, Structured Record Access API, fleet management tooling

Set technical direction for one or more SRS sub-areas: architecture standards, design reviews, raising the bar on how the team builds

Continuously assess SRS cloud platform needs at scale, identify significant risks and gaps, and drive the roadmap to close them

Own and improve fleet-wide operations: capacity management, monitoring and alerting, query tuning, load optimization, and data replication for reporting workloads

Create and institutionalize best practices and health models for the database fleet; use observability tooling and AWS automation to enforce standards consistently across hundreds of managed databases

Build a high-impact network of storage champions across engineering groups, consult directly with product teams and group leads on storage readiness and risk, and select training opportunities that raise engineering capability division-wide

Own reliability for what you build: monitoring, runbooks, on-call response, post-incident learning

Partner with SRS area leadership across managed database platform, DevEx, and data warehousing to sequence work and make cross-team tradeoffs

Drive migration and schema lifecycle initiatives across the fleet, coordinating with product teams, managing rollout risk, validating rollback coverage

Mentor P2/P3 engineers; conduct design and code reviews with real feedback

Represent SRS technical requirements in cross-org forums: architecture review, group leadership

Provide tactical leadership during production emergencies

Minimum Qualifications

6+ years of software engineering in a platform, infrastructure, or data engineering context

5+ years of Kubernetes architecture at scale

7+ years of Terraform experience

7+ years of experience with cloud data technologies

Deep Postgres or DynamoDB experience at scale: fleet-level operations, not application-level use

Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects end-to-end: design through production

Hands-on Kafka or event streaming experience in production; bonus if you've built CDC pipelines (Postgres binlog, DynamoDB Streams, Debezium)

ORM experience at the framework or platform layer: you've built or extended ORM tooling to drive semantic eventing, not just consumed it

Kubernetes CRD hands-on experience: designing or operating controllers/operators that manage platform resources

Strong AWS background: IAM, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, ECS/EKS, multi-region

Able to drive technical alignment across opinionated teams; you've gotten three engineers with different opinions to agree on an approach

Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and GitOps deployment experience

Strong communication and organizational skills; you can influence outcomes across teams, groups, and leadership

Preferred Qualifications

You're a self-starter, comfortable driving work across a distributed group of service owners on different teams

You're a fearless problem-solver and model-driven thinker

You embrace big challenges and apply rigorous yet efficient methods to your solutions

You're results-driven, with a strong bias for action and a solid sense of accountability

The Ideal Candidate

Experience building or operating a managed Postgres platform

Customer Managed Keys (CMK): AWS KMS key policy design, envelope encryption, or CMK rotation in a regulated environment

Schema catalog, data governance, or data contract experience

Liquibase or equivalent schema migration tooling experience

Helm, ArgoCD, or Harness deployment pipeline experience

Apigee, LLM proxy, or API gateway platform experience

FedRAMP/IL4 compliance context in a cloud environment

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26WD99177, Développeur logiciel principal - Bases de données

À propos d’Autodesk Construction Solutions chez Autodesk

Autodesk a entièrement repensé le secteur de la construction à l’ère du numérique, permettant ainsi aux entreprises de relever les défis les plus importants auxquels elles sont confrontées aujourd’hui tout en se préparant aux nouvelles méthodes de travail de demain. Le portefeuille Autodesk Construction Solutions (ACS) relie le bureau, le chantier et le terrain, permettant ainsi aux clients de passer en toute fluidité d’une phase à l’autre du cycle de vie de la construction, de la conception et de la pré-construction à la construction, à la livraison et à l’exploitation. Partout dans le monde, les maîtres d’œuvre, les sous-traitants et les maîtres d’ouvrage s’appuient sur ACS pour remporter davantage de marchés, renforcer la collaboration, accélérer la prise de décision, réduire les risques et améliorer les résultats globaux des projets.

Le groupe Structured Record Storage gère la couche de persistance des données partagées pour le secteur AEC : gestion automatisée du parc de bases de données, transmission en continu vers le stockage centralisé à des fins d’analyse et d’apprentissage automatique, ainsi que les abstractions de développement qui dissocient la logique des services de la technologie de stockage. Nous gérons l’ensemble du parc de bases de données (Postgres et DynamoDB, toutes les régions de production), prenons en charge le cycle de vie des schémas, de la migration au déploiement régional, et diffusons des événements sémantiques vers Kafka afin que les équipes en aval n’aient jamais à développer d’applications de reconstruction à partir de données brutes. SRS est une fonction au niveau de la plateforme. Nous définissons les normes de stockage, veillons à leur respect et développons les outils qui automatisent la conf