About the Role
The Visualization Services team builds cloud infrastructure enabling customers to view and interact with large, complex 3D models smoothly on any device across Autodesk products. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to own and deliver complex modules within our Search Infrastructure within Autodesk Platform Services. You will work with system architects and principal engineers to build modern, scalable Search Platforms powering search experiences across Autodesk’s Industry Clouds – Fusion, Forma, and Flow, and solve demanding distributed systems and algorithmic problems.
Responsibilities
- Independently design, build, and maintain complex modules of our streaming services, using sound judgment on problems with diverse scope and significant unknowns.
- Own components or initiatives end to end, driving execution, applying solid engineering practices, meeting quality and operational standards, and collaborating with key stakeholders.
- Operate what you build, deploying and running services on AWS across multiple regions, primarily using ECS/EC2, with supporting services such as S3, DynamoDB, SQS, ElastiCache/Redis, Lambda, and CloudFront.
- Improve performance and resiliency through caching and eviction strategies, retry and dead-letter recovery, memory-mapped or pager-based data access, and scaling policies, measuring impact with concrete data.
- Troubleshoot and root-cause production issues with limited supervision; participate in incident response and drive follow-up improvements.
- Contribute to design and architecture discussions, bring technology ideas to the team, and provide input into technical planning, roadmap discussions, and team goals.
- Act as a multiplier within the team by reviewing code, sharing knowledge, mentoring junior engineers, and helping raise the bar on engineering practices.
- Identify opportunities to automate, simplify, and remove inefficiency, including through thoughtful use of AI-assisted development tools and agents.
- Occasionally help facilitate team rituals, planning, or delivery coordination.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of hands-on software development experience building and operating production services.
- Strong production experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and Node.js, or strong backend engineering experience in another language with demonstrated ability to ramp quickly on a Node.js service stack.
- Hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure, especially ECS and EC2, and AWS Bedrock, SageMaker and OpenSearch, and multi-environment deployment.
- Strong algorithms and mathematics skills, with the ability to reason about complexity, data structures, and performance trade-offs.
- Solid grasp of object-oriented and/or functional design, concurrency, troubleshooting, and independent problem-solving.
- Experience working with high-traffic distributed systems, including REST or WebSocket APIs, data interchange formats such as JSON or Protobuf, and basic observability practices such as logging, metrics, and tracing.
- Familiarity with Agile development.
- Openness to using AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity and quality.
Skills
- JavaScript/TypeScript
- Node.js
- AWS infrastructure
- ECS
- EC2
- AWS Bedrock
- SageMaker
- OpenSearch
- Algorithms
- Mathematics
- Object-oriented design
- Functional design
- Concurrency
- Troubleshooting
- Distributed systems
- REST APIs
- WebSocket APIs
- JSON
- Protobuf
- Logging
- Metrics
- Tracing
- Information Retrieval
- Lucene
- ElasticSearch
- Vector Databases
- ML Infrastructure
- Knowledge Graph
- Graph Databases
- Cloud Infrastructure platforms
- Monitoring
- Reliability
- Security
- Compliance
- Infrastructure as Code
- Terraform
- CloudFormation
- CI/CD pipelines
- Jenkins
- Harness
- Observability tooling
- Dynatrace
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Splunk
Location
- Toronto
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- 5+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Salary/Compensations
- $107,000 - $157,300
Benefits
- Annual cash bonuses
- Stock grants
- Comprehensive benefits package
About the Company
- 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 helps millions of designers, engineers, builders, and creators turn ideas into real-world outcomes.
- 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 defines how we show up in the world.
- When you’re an Autodesker, you can do meaningful work that helps build a better world designed and made for all.
Equal Opportunity
- We take pride in cultivating a culture of belonging where everyone can thrive.
