Sr. Software Engineer

Autodesk Autodesk · Enterprise · Toronto, ON +1

Autodesk is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer for its Search Infrastructure team. The role involves building and operating scalable micro-services for a search platform powering industry clouds. Responsibilities include design, development, testing, deployment, code reviews, and working with SREs. Requires strong CS fundamentals, Java proficiency, and experience with Information Retrieval tools like Lucene/ElasticSearch/OpenSearch, and cloud platforms like AWS. Preferred qualifications include exposure to Vector Databases and ML Infrastructure.

What you'd actually do

  1. Contribute to the design, development and operations of highly scalable, distributed, data intensive micro-services
  2. Implement the tech solutions in iterations from design, to code, testing and deployment with engineering disciplines for resiliency, scalability and security
  3. Perform code reviews, adopt industry best practices to clean and maintainable code and improve development standards within the team.
  4. Partner with Principals, Software Architects, Product Managers and Engineering Managers to design and implement technical solutions to drive business outcomes
  5. Work with SREs to meet SLAs of large-scale micro-services with monitoring, troubleshooting and optimizations

Skills

Required

  • BS or MS in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience
  • 6+ years of experience in building and running medium to large scale systems
  • Strong Computer Science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and data management
  • Exceptional proficiency in Java programming language
  • Exposure to Information Retrieval with hands on experience in Lucene/ElasticSearch/OpenSearch
  • Experience in Cloud Infrastructure platforms such as AWS
  • Hands-on experience with database systems (e.g. MySQL, DynamoDB)

Nice to have

  • Exposure to Vector Databases and ML Infrastructure
  • Knowledge Graphs / Graph databases
  • Experience in monitoring and improving reliability of a complex system at scale.
  • Aware of Security and Compliance challenges in Cloud products and/or platforms

What the JD emphasized

  • 6+ years of experience in building and running medium to large scale systems
  • Exceptional proficiency in Java programming language
  • Exposure to Information Retrieval with hands on experience in Lucene/ElasticSearch/OpenSearch
  • Experience in Cloud Infrastructure platforms such as AWS
  • Exposure to Vector Databases and ML Infrastructure