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Principal Engineer (Search, Java, AWS)

Autodesk · Pune, IND

experiencedPune, INDPosted 3 Sept 2026

Autodesk is hiring a Principal Engineer (Search, Java, AWS) in Pune.

Job Requisition ID # 25WD94362 Position Overview Welcome to Autodesk! The world’s innovators, designers, engineers, builders, and creators trust Autodesk to help them design and make a better world for all. Autodesk’s Design and Make Platform empowers everyone, everywhere to design and make anything. From the buildings we live and work in, to the cars we drive and the bridges we drive over. From the products we use and technology we rely on, to the movies and games that inspire us. Everything around us is made using Autodesk software. Autodesk’s leading Design and Make Platform offers customer

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design, development and operations of highly scalable, distributed, data intensive micro-services
  • Champion adopting industry best practices to push the development standards within the team
  • Partner with Software Architects, Product Managers and Engineering Managers to design technical solutions to drive business outcomes
  • Help to meet SLAs of large-scale micro-services with monitoring, troubleshooting and optimizations
  • Lead detection, recovery and postmortems of production incidents
  • Help to hire, mentor Engineers, help build fast-growing and high-performing teams
  • Perform thorough design and code reviews, drive best practices to clean and maintainable code

Requirements

  • BS or MS in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience
  • 10+ years of experience in building and running large scale systems
  • Strong Computer Science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and data management
  • Exposure to Information Retrieval with hands on experience in Lucene/ElasticSearch/OpenSearch
  • Thorough knowledge of multi-threading, concurrency, and parallel processing concepts
  • Exceptional proficiency in Java or similar programming language
  • Expertise in Cloud Infrastructure platforms such as AWS
  • Thorough understanding of database systems (e.g. MySQL, DynamoDB) including scalability, performance, and consistency characteristics
  • Expertise with modern technology stacks, API design, microservices, stream processing and designing for resilience and operational excellence

Preferred qualifications

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

The Ideal Candidate

  • Strong communicator. You enjoy synthesizing, simplifying, and articulating complex problems to others
  • A team-player, with a result-focused passion to deliver an overall solution
  • You embrace perpetual learning and are always ready for a new challenge

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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 – it’s 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 define

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