About the Role
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Autodesk, you will help build and operate reliable, secure, and scalable cloud services for Autodesk GovCloud products. This foundational role involves shaping how Autodesk deploys, runs, and improves production services in restricted cloud environments, establishing the operating model, reliability practices, automation, and engineering standards.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a primary owner for the reliability, availability, performance, operability, and capacity of one or more production services
- Deploy, operate, maintain, and continuously improve production services running in Autodesk GovCloud environments
- Partner with engineering teams to ensure services are designed with reliability, scalability, security, and operability in mind
- Define and operate reliability practices such as SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, production readiness reviews, service reviews, and operational health reviews
- Build automation to improve deployment safety, operational efficiency, incident response, and service recovery
- Design, develop, and maintain software, automation, and tooling that improve the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of production systems
- Implement and improve monitoring, alerting, logging, tracing, and observability capabilities across supported services
- Lead and participate in incident response, troubleshooting, and post-incident reviews focused on learning and continuous improvement
- Develop and maintain operational documentation, runbooks, and recovery procedures
- Scale and enhance resilience testing and Gameday practices to validate system behavior, recovery capabilities, and operational readiness
- Continuously identify and eliminate operational toil through software engineering, automation, and process improvement
- Ensure supported services remain compliant with Autodesk security, privacy, and regulatory requirements, including FedRAMP and related controls where applicable
- Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation for production services
- Function effectively in a fast-paced environment while helping establish and mature operational excellence practices for Autodesk GovCloud
Requirements
- B.S. or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience
- 7+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, or Production Operations
- Experience operating and supporting customer-facing production services in large-scale cloud environments
- Strong understanding of reliability engineering principles, including SLOs/SLIs, observability, incident management, capacity planning, production readiness, and automation
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or other public cloud platforms
- Experience developing automation using languages such as Python, Go, Java, PowerShell, Bash, or similar
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and modern cloud operations practices
- Understanding of security, compliance, and operational risk management in production environments
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- In accordance with GovCloud Cloud Service Provider Security Requirements, this role must be performed by U.S. Citizens.
- Employment is contingent upon meeting all applicable government security and eligibility requirements, including necessary background investigations and government issued security clearances.
- This role may require in-person onboarding and/or in-person ID verification.
Skills
- Site Reliability Engineering
- Software Engineering
- Platform Engineering
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Production Operations
- AWS GovCloud
- FedRAMP
- IL4/IL5
- Containers
- Kubernetes
- Cloud-native architectures
- APIs
- Load balancing
- Networking
- DNS
- Distributed systems
- Splunk
- Dynatrace
- Datadog
- CloudWatch
- Databases
- Storage platforms
- Messaging systems
- Caching technologies
- Operational automation
- Incident management
- Technical leadership
- Stakeholder communication
- Collaboration
Location
- GovCloud
Work Type
- Onsite
- In-Person Onboarding
Experience Level
- Senior
- 7+ years of experience
- 10+ years of experience
Education Level
- B.S. or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience
Salary/Compensations
- $117,000 and $209,330
Benefits
- Health benefits
- Financial benefits
- Time away
- Everyday wellness
- Annual cash bonuses
- Stock grants
- Comprehensive benefits package
About the Company
- 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.
- 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. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!
Equal Opportunity
- Autodesk is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic.
- We also consider for employment all qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.
- We take pride in cultivating a culture of belonging where everyone can thrive.
