
Job Information
Autodesk Principal Engineer in Boston, Massachusetts
Job Requisition ID #
20WD44450
Position Overview
Do you have a passion for delighting customers by building high quality scalable cloud applications? If so, we invite you to join the Autodesk Building Design team, the makers of Autodesk Revit. We’re seeking an accomplished and highly motivated full stack engineer who will work as part of a cross functional agile team. Our team is focused on building the next generation of Autodesk Insight cloud service that empowers architects and mechanical engineers to design more energy-efficient buildings with advanced simulation engines and building performance analysis data integrated in Autodesk Revit.
Your responsibilities will range across the stack as you work with the product owner, experience designer, and other engineers to develop and maintain this new secure, scalable, available and performant service. As a senior engineer on the team, you will be highly involved in the system design of the service, evaluate implementations and code reviews.
Responsibilities
Develop high quality, secure and stable code that is covered by unit tests
Contribute to software design and architecture by leveraging cloud design patterns and injecting your cloud expertise into the entire development lifecycle
Contribute to improvements in processes and deliverables that increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the team in responding to customer and business needs
Conduct research and make recommendations on tools, services, and standards to use for engineering efforts
Document and present your ideas and solutions accurately and thoroughly
Coordinate change deployment and release testing effort
Work closely with customers to support production services in an on-call rotation and be an escalation contact for service incidents
Enthusiasm to mentor teammates, learn from others and actively engage in various agile team meeting
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience
5+ years of relevant experience building large scale web applications
Demonstrable understanding of typical web application architecture (data, application, web tiers etc.)
Strong Experience with fundamental web technologies - HTML5, CSS & JavaScript with a solid understanding of the underlying principles
Experience with at least one frontend web library/framework (React, Angular or Vue)
Experience of creating secure and scalable web services with a solid understanding of the foundational communication protocols used e.g. TCP/IP, HTTP, Web Sockets
ExperiEnce with Test Driven Development and unit testing
Experience of security best practices for a modern cloud service
Experience of CI/CD concepts and working with a deployment pipeline
Experience of Amazon Web Services or other cloud infrastructure technologies
Experience of basic network infrastructure and components (load balancing, NAT, scaling, etc.)
Comfortable with working in Linux and Windows environment
Self-motivated, autonomous, empathetic and great communication skill
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with NodeJS and Python
Experience with AWS including EC2, ECS, S3, RDS, Batch
Experience with microservices and working with Docker containers
Experience with Jenkins
Cloud security/ secure development life cycle
Experience of working with Unit and End to End testing frameworks for both frontend and backend applications e.g. Jest, Cypress, XUnit
Experience of at least one Object Oriented programming language e.g. C#, C++, Java
Experience working in an Agile or Scrum environment
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