Position Overview :

Are you energised by shaping technical direction and building platform-scale systems that power experiences for millions of users. Autodesks 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 :

- Bachelors or Masters 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.

Learn More :

About Autodesk :

- Welcome to Autodesk! Amazing things are created every day with our software from the greenest buildings and cleanest cars to the smartest factories and biggest hit movies.

- We help innovators turn their ideas into reality, transforming not only how things are made, but what can be made.

- We take great pride in our culture here at Autodesk its at the core of everything we do.

- Our culture guides the way we work and treat each other, informs how we connect with customers and partners, and defines how we show up in the world.

- When youre an Autodesker, you can do meaningful work that helps build a better world designed and made for all.

- Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!.

Salary transparency :

- Salary is one part of Autodesks competitive compensation package.

- Offers are based on the candidates experience and geographic location.

- In addition to base salaries, our compensation package may include annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package