Senior Principal Engineer – Cloud Platform

As a technical leader for the IAM team in India, you will provide architectural direction, mentor engineers, and ensure alignment across cross-functional teams. You’ll collaborate closely with global architects and stakeholders across the broader IAM organization to shape and drive platform strategy and execution. This position reports to the Senior Director of the IAM Platform and is based in India.

In this role, you will lead the architecture and evolution of the Authentication capability, a critical component of Autodesk’s IAM platform. You’ll be responsible for designing and guiding the development of secure, resilient, and customer-centric authentication cloud service that integrate deeply with Autodesk’s product landscape.

• Lead the resolution of complex, cross-functional technical challenges with significant business impact.
• Mentor and grow engineering talent, fostering a culture of innovation and technical leadership in cloud-native development.
• Own the end-to-end architecture and hands-on engineering of secure, cloud-native IAM (AuthN/AuthZ) systems across Autodesk products and platforms, spanning design, implementation, and production operations.
• Align cloud and platform strategies with business priorities, balancing near-term opportunities with long-term technical vision.
• Champion cloud best practices in resiliency, scalability, observability, and cost optimization; drive engineering excellence through design/code reviews and clean, maintainable code.
• Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to translate business needs into cloud-ready, well-architected services.
• Anticipate emerging business and technology challenges in the cloud ecosystem, proactively shaping solutions.
• Define and lead the cloud architecture and technical vision for scalable, distributed, data-intensive microservices.

Autodesk is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Software Architect- Cloud Platform to join our Identity and Access Management (IAM) Platform team. The Autodesk IAM Platform is a foundational service that provides secure, seamless, and scalable access across 150+ Autodesk desktop, web, mobile applications, and connected devices. It powers core capabilities such as authentication and authorization, serving millions of users worldwide and enabling a growing ecosystem of third-party developers and integrations.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in the architecture and design of modern Identity platforms, with a proven track record of delivering at scale in cloud-native environments.

• Awareness of security and compliance challenges in cloud-native products and platforms.
• Contributions to open-source projects or research in large-scale data and distributed systems.
• Expertise with modern technology stacks, API design, microservices, stream processing and designing for resilience and operational excellence
• Deep understanding of database systems (e.g. MySQL, DynamoDB, Cassandra) including scalability, performance, and consistency characteristics
• Thorough knowledge of multi-threading, concurrency, and parallel processing concepts
• BS in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience
• 3+ years of experience in a technical leadership or architect role, leading design of complex systems
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and data management. Conversant in multiple programming languages
• Strong communicator. You enjoy synthesizing, simplifying, and articulating complex problems to different types of audience, including executives
• Expertise in Cloud Infrastructure platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Experience designing offline-first architectures for desktop and mobile applications.
• Experience monitoring and improving reliability of complex systems at scale.
• Familiarity with modern identity standards: OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, PKCE, SAML, and MFA.
• 12+ years of experience in building and running large scale systems professionally and can point to things worked on
• Exceptional proficiency in Java or Golang or similar programming language

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