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Senior Principal Applications Engineer

Autodesk · Posted Oct 22

3D design, engineering, architecture, and entertainment software solutions

Bengaluru, INDFull-timeOnsiteLead/Staff14+ years₹65.0L–₹1.0Cr yearly<25 applicants
SoftwareCAD3D DesignArchitectureEngineeringConstructionManufacturingMedia and EntertainmentPublic Company
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About the role

The Growth Experience Technology (GET) organization at Autodesk builds scalable platforms and integrations that enable Customer Success teams to drive customer adoption, engagement, retention, and business outcomes. The tech domain spans cloud-native architectures on AWS, enterprise CRM/Salesforce ecosystems, REST and event-driven integration platforms, and AI-assisted development. This role provides technical leadership and architectural vision across strategic initiatives, designs highly available distributed systems, sets engineering standards, and mentors engineers across multiple teams.

What you will do

  • Own the technical vision and architecture for multiple enterprise platforms and services, including CRM ecosystems, translating product strategy and OKRs into measurable technical roadmaps
  • Lead the design and delivery of highly available, secure, and scalable production systems, including microservices, enterprise APIs, Salesforce CRM solutions, integration services, orchestration platforms, and modern web applications
  • Define the enterprise architecture for all integrations, ensuring seamless connectivity with internal and external business systems through REST APIs, middleware, event-driven architectures, and integration platform on AWS
  • Drive cross-organizational architectural decisions on application design, integration patterns, API standards, tooling, and engineering frameworks to promote consistency, reuse, scalability, and governance across engineering teams
  • Produce and review production-quality code, architecture documents, technical design specifications, runbooks, and lead major migrations, cutovers, platform modernization initiatives, and enterprise transformation programs
  • Define and enforce engineering standards for CI/CD, automated testing, observability, SLOs/SLIs, security, governance, cost optimization, resiliency, and autoscaling across cloud-native platforms
  • Champion comprehensive automated testing strategies, including unit, integration, contract, regression, performance, and load testing, while enabling continuous integration and continuous delivery
  • Own operational readiness and platform reliability in partnership with SRE teams, including monitoring, alerting, incident response, disaster recovery, backup and restore, production support, and capacity planning
  • Partner closely with Product Management, Enterprise Architects, Engineering Managers, Business Systems, and cross-functional stakeholders to prioritize technical initiatives, manage dependencies, and align engineering investments with business outcomes
  • Provide technical leadership for enterprise CRM strategy, Salesforce platform evolution, and large-scale enterprise integration initiatives, ensuring scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions
  • Mentor Principal Engineers, Senior Engineers, and Engineering Managers through architecture reviews, technical coaching, and engineering best practices while cultivating technical leadership across the organization
  • Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies, including AI/ML, GenAI, workflow orchestration, event streaming, and modern integration platforms, proactively identifying technical debt, architectural risks, and opportunities for continuous improvement

Skills used in this role

AWSEC2S3IAMRDSLambdaCloudFormationCloudWatchEKSKubernetesTerraformGitOpsSalesforceREST APIsMicroservicesCI/CDGenAILLMsRAGVector DatabasesMCPOAuthOpenID ConnectSAMLAI/ML

What the employer is looking for

  • 14+ years of software development experience with demonstrated expertise across the full product development lifecycle
  • Proven experience architecting enterprise applications and preferably CRM ecosystems
  • Deep technical expertise in a critical technology or capability area, with the ability to act as an authoritative expert on technology, tooling, or domain
  • Extensive experience designing and implementing enterprise integration solutions using REST APIs, webhooks, asynchronous messaging, middleware platforms, and event-driven architectures
  • Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services (EC2, S3, IAM, RDS, Lambda, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, EKS) and designing resilient, secure, and highly available multi-region architectures
  • Proven ability to lead key business outcomes and initiatives, with accountability for results that impact the division or functional area
  • Strong experience designing and evolving SDKs, APIs, and platform capabilities consumed by multiple teams and connector integrations
  • Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction and achieve alignment across teams and divisions without direct authority
  • Experience building desktop application plugins or extensions that integrate with cloud-based platforms and services
  • Strong understanding of build automation, CI/CD pipelines, and developer experience optimization
  • Ability to clearly articulate the business drivers for an area of technical investment

Preferred qualifications

  • Experience integrating Salesforce with enterprise applications including ERP, Customer Success platforms (e.g., Gainsight), data warehouses, marketing automation, identity providers, and third-party SaaS applications
  • Experience designing event-driven architectures using event buses, asynchronous messaging, and distributed workflows
  • Experience building AI-powered enterprise applications using GenAI technologies, LLMs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), vector databases, AI agents, or Model Context Protocol (MCP)
  • Experience leading large-scale cloud modernization, digital transformation, or enterprise platform migration initiatives
  • Experience designing secure, compliant enterprise platforms with knowledge of OAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML, Zero Trust architecture, PCI, SOC 2, GDPR, or similar security and compliance frameworks
  • Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation), Kubernetes platform engineering, GitOps, and developer platform tooling
  • Demonstrated ability to influence executive stakeholders, drive technology strategy across multiple engineering organizations, and build consensus on long-term architectural direction

Benefits and support

  • annual cash bonuses
  • stock grants

About Autodesk

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Autodesk is a global leader in 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software, providing solutions for architecture, engineering, construction, product design, and media creation. Its flagship products, such as AutoCAD, Revit, and Fusion 360, empower professionals across industries to imagine, design, and make a better world. As a pioneer in the space, the company continues to drive innovation through cloud collaboration, digital twins, and AI-powered design workflows.

Industry
Software
Company size
10001+ employees
Founded
1982
Location
San Francisco, California, USA
Funding stage
Public Company

Leadership

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Andrew Anagnost

President and Chief Executive Officer

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Janesh Moorjani

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

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Raji Arasu

Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer

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Steve Blum

Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer

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Dara Treseder

Chief Marketing Officer

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