Senior Principal Applications Engineer

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.
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
Minimum Qualifications
14+ years of software development experience with demonstrated expertise across the full product development lifecycle
Strong knowledge of Salesforce architecture, including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Platform, APIs, integration patterns, data modeling, security, and identity management.
Proven experience designing scalable, secure, highly available, and maintainable Salesforce solutions for complex enterprise environments.
Strong understanding of Salesforce development and configuration capabilities, including Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), Flow, SOQL, and platform security.
Knowledge of enterprise integration patterns and technologies, including REST/SOAP APIs, event-driven architectures, middleware, and external systems integration.
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
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
Knowledge of AWS cloud services, including EC2, S3, IAM, RDS, Lambda, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, and EKS, with an understanding of designing resilient, secure, highly available architectures.
Experience designing event-driven architectures using event buses, asynchronous messaging, and distributed workflows
Experience leading large-scale cloud modernization, digital transformation, or enterprise platform migration initiatives
Experience building AI-powered enterprise applications using GenAI technologies, LLMs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), vector databases, AI agents, or Model Context Protocol (MCP)
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
Demonstrated ability to influence executive stakeholders, drive technology strategy across multiple engineering organizations, and build consensus on long-term architectural direction
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About Autodesk / À propos d’Autodesk
Welcome to Autodesk! Amazing things are created every day with our software – from the greenest buildings and cleanest cars to the smartest factories and biggest hit movies. We help innovators turn their ideas into reality, transforming not only how things are made, but what can be made.
We take great pride in our culture here at Autodesk – it’s at the core of everything we do. Our culture guides the way we work and treat each other, informs how we connect with customers and partners, and defines how we show up in the world.
When you’re an Autodesker, you can do meaningful work that helps build a better world designed and made for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!
Bienvenue chez Autodesk ! Nos logiciels créent chaque jour des choses extraordinaires : des bâtiments les plus écologiques aux voitures les plus propres, en passant par les usines les plus intelligentes et les films à succès. Nous aidons les innovateurs à concrétiser leurs idées, transformant non seulement la façon dont les choses sont fabriquées, mais aussi ce qui peut l’être.
Nous sommes très fiers de notre culture chez Autodesk ; elle est au cœur de tout ce que nous faisons. Notre culture guide notre façon de travailler et de nous comporter les uns envers les autres, influence nos interactions avec nos clients et nos partenaires, et définit notre image au monde.
En tant qu’Autodeskien, vous pouvez accomplir un travail significatif qui contribue à bâtir un monde meilleur, conçu et réalisé pour tous. Prêt à façonner le monde et votre avenir ? Rejoignez-nous !
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