Senior Principal Applications Engineer

Autodesk · Bengaluru, IND

onsitefull-time10+ years

posted 14 Aug

Job Requisition ID # 26WD99826 Position Overview Autodesk is seeking an accomplished Senior Principal Applications Engineer to provide technical leadership and architectural vision across strategic initiatives within the Growth Experience Technology (GET) organization. This role is responsible for shaping the long-term technology strategy, driving architectural excellence, and influencing the design and delivery of scalable platforms and integrations that enable Customer Success teams to drive customer adoption, engagement, retention, and business outcomes at scale. As a senior technical leader, you will partner closely with Engineering, Product Management, Architecture, and executive stakeholders to define technical roadmaps, solve complex business and engineering challenges, and ensure the successful execution of critical initiatives. You will lead the design of highly available, secure, and scalable distributed systems, establish engineering standards and best practices, and mentor engineers across multiple teams. The ideal candidate is a hands-on technologist with deep expertise in modern cloud-native architectures, platform engineering, AI-assisted development, and enterprise integrations. You are passionate about innovation, thrive in ambiguous environments, and have a proven track record of influencing technical direction across organizations. You combine strategic thinking with execution excellence and are motivated by delivering measurable customer and business impact through technology. Responsibilities 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, e