Principal Engineer – Data Platform & Backend

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Position Overview

Autodesk is a global leader in 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software, empowering innovators to design and make a better world. Our platforms support millions of users across industries including architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, and media.

The Growth Experience Technology (GET) organization is seeking a Principal Engineer– Data Platform & Backend to lead the evolution of scalable data platforms, data pipelines, and data-intensive backend services powering digital experience, commerce, and customer intelligence platforms.

This is primarily a data platform engineering hands-on leadership role, with backend engineering as an important enabling capability. The ideal candidate will own modern data architecture, batch and streaming pipelines, data models, data quality, governance, and cloud- scale data systems, while also designing APIs, services, and integrations that make trusted data accessible, reliable, and product-ready.

This is a high-impact technical hands-on leadership role responsible for defining architecture, scaling data platforms, and enabling AI-driven personalization, experimentation, customer intelligence, and decision intelligence at global scale. You will operate across multiple teams as a technical authority, mentor, and strategic driver, shaping both execution and long-term technical vision.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and implementation of scalable enterprise data platforms, data

• pipelines, and data products.

• Design and build batch, real-time, and event-driven data processing systems.

• Own data architecture patterns including data modeling, lakehouse design, data

• contracts, schema evolution, lineage, quality, and governance.

• Build reliable data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and serving layers for digital experience, commerce, customer intelligence, analytics, operational reporting, and AI/ML readiness.