Senior Principal Engineer (Full Stack/Platform)

Job Requisition ID # 26WD96635 Position Overview ​ Are you energised by shaping technical direction and building platform-scale systems that power experiences for millions of users? Autodesk’s 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 Bachelor’s or Master’s 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 wit ... (truncated, view full listing at source)