Principal Software Engineer - Backend

Job Requisition ID # 26WD97363 Position Overview We are seeking aPrincipal Software Engineer – Backendto join Autodesk ’s Enterprise Data Management (EDM) organization within the COO-GET Engineering group. This is a senior individual contributor roleoperatingat thePrincipal(P4) level, expected to drive technology direction forlarge, complex, and business-critical backend and distributed systems. This role is anchored inbackend software engineering excellence: designing, building, and evolving scalable services, APIs, and event-driven systems thatoperateat enterprise scale. As a Principal Engineer, you will work withhigh autonomy and ambiguity, shape long-term architecture, and influence multiple teams and domains. Familiarity with data engineering concepts is valuable, but backend systems, service design, and distributed systems are the core competencies. You will function as a technical authority and force multiplier—guiding design decisions, setting standards, and ensuring Autodesk ’s core data services are reliable, resilient, and evolvable over time. Responsibilities Provideprincipal-level technical leadershipacross multiple backend and platform teams, shaping architecture and technical strategy beyond a single squad or service Author and evolvecritical backend systems and APIs, ensuring they meet long-term scalability, reliability, and extensibility goals Lead design ofdistributed, event-driven systems, addressing consistency, ordering, failure handling, replay, idempote