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Autodesk

Builds design, engineering, and animation software

Principal Software Developer - Databases

Full-Time
CA$131k - CA$191.4k/yr+ Annual cash bonuses + Stock grants
Senior, Expert
Remote in Canada+1 moreMore locations: Winnipeg, MB, Canada
RemoteThe role may require in-person onboarding or in-person identity verification.
DevOps & InfrastructureDatabase Administration

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 6 years of software engineering experience in a platform, infrastructure, or data engineering context.
  • At least 5 years of Kubernetes architecture experience at scale.
  • At least 7 years of Terraform experience.
  • At least 7 years of experience with cloud data technologies.
  • Deep Postgres or DynamoDB experience at scale, including fleet-level operations rather than application-level use.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects end-to-end, from design through production.
  • Hands-on Kafka or event-streaming experience in production; experience building CDC pipelines is a bonus.
  • ORM experience at the framework or platform layer, including developing or extending ORM tooling to drive semantic eventing rather than merely consuming it.
  • Hands-on Kubernetes CRD experience, including designing or operating controllers or operators that manage platform resources.
  • Strong AWS experience with IAM, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, ECS/EKS, and multi-region environments.
  • Ability to drive technical alignment across opinionated teams and reach agreement on an approach.
  • Infrastructure-as-Code experience using Terraform and GitOps deployment experience.
  • Strong communication and organizational skills, with the ability to influence outcomes across teams, groups, and leadership.
Responsibilities
  • Lead the design and implementation of high-impact Structured Record Storage platform capabilities, including event-platform CDC integration with Kafka, schema automation, the Structured Record Access API, and fleet-management tooling.
  • Set technical direction for one or more Structured Record Storage sub-areas, including architecture standards, design reviews, and raising the team’s engineering standards.
  • Continuously assess Structured Record Storage cloud-platform needs at scale, identify significant risks and gaps, and drive the roadmap to address them.
  • Own and improve fleet-wide operations, including capacity management, monitoring and alerting, query tuning, load optimization, and data replication for reporting workloads.
  • Create and institutionalize best practices and health models for the database fleet, using observability tooling and AWS automation to enforce standards across hundreds of managed databases.
  • Build a network of storage champions across engineering groups, consult product teams and group leads on storage readiness and risk, and select training opportunities that raise engineering capability across the division.
  • Own reliability for the systems built, including monitoring, runbooks, on-call response, and post-incident learning.
  • Partner with Structured Record Storage area leadership across managed database platforms, developer experience, and data warehousing to sequence work and make cross-team tradeoffs.
  • Drive migration and schema-lifecycle initiatives across the fleet, coordinate with product teams, manage rollout risk, and validate rollback coverage.
  • Mentor P2/P3 engineers and conduct design and code reviews with substantive feedback.
  • Represent Structured Record Storage technical requirements in cross-organizational forums, including architecture reviews and group leadership.
  • Provide tactical leadership during production emergencies.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience building or operating a managed Postgres platform.
  • Customer Managed Keys experience, including AWS KMS key-policy design, envelope encryption, or Customer Managed Key rotation in a regulated environment.
  • Schema catalog, data governance, or data contract experience.
  • Liquibase or equivalent schema-migration tooling experience.
  • Helm, ArgoCD, or Harness deployment-pipeline experience.
  • Apigee, large language model proxy, or API gateway platform experience.
  • FedRAMP/IL4 compliance experience in a cloud environment.

About the company

Autodesk builds software for architects, engineers, construction teams, product designers, and digital artists. Its products include AutoCAD for drafting, Revit for building models, Fusion for product development, and Maya for animation and visual effects. Professionals use these desktop and cloud tools to create digital designs, test alternatives, prepare drawings, and coordinate project information with colleagues before work reaches a building site, factory, or screen. Autodesk earns revenue through software subscriptions, enterprise agreements, and usage-based access, with cloud services connecting teams and their project data. Autodesk was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

1982

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What believers are saying

  • Revenue is growing: August 2026 Autodesk reported $2.05 billion for Q2 fiscal 2027, up 16% year over year.
  • Maintenance software expands the portfolio: August 2026 Autodesk completed its approximately $3.6 billion acquisition of MaintainX.
  • US retirement savings get support: Autodesk's 2026 401(k) match reaches $4,500 for eligible employees contributing $6,000.

What critics are saying

  • Acquisition financing has a short maturity: August 2026 Autodesk borrowed $1 billion through a 364-day MaintainX term loan.
  • Sales staffing faces cuts: January 2026 Autodesk announced a 7% workforce reduction, concentrated in customer-facing sales teams.
  • US vacation accrual has a ceiling: Autodesk's full time nonexempt employees earn 10 hours monthly, capped at 200 hours.

What makes Autodesk unique

  • Product development shares one workspace: Fusion combines mechanical design, machining, simulation, and circuit-board layout in one cloud platform.
  • Building edits stay coordinated: Revit's parametric relationships automatically propagate component changes throughout the model and its drawings.
  • Specialist drafting uses one license: AutoCAD includes seven toolsets covering architecture, electrical, mechanical, mapping, plumbing, plants, and raster work.

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Paid Vacation

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Hybrid Work Options

Professional Development Budget

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6 month growth

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1 year growth

-2%

2 year growth

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Oct 5th, 2026
Autodesk shares rise 3.8% after Schneider Electric's $22.6B PTC acquisition

Autodesk shares rose 3.8% in pre-market trading after Schneider Electric announced a $22.6 billion cash acquisition of PTC, an industrial design and product lifecycle management software provider. The deal, Schneider's largest to date, valued PTC at a 42.3% premium to its previous closing price. The transaction provides a valuation benchmark for the industrial and engineering software sector where Autodesk operates. The company recently announced wider rollout of Autodesk Assistant across its Fusion product portfolio, extending AI capabilities to products including Inventor, Moldflow and Vault. Autodesk reported 16% revenue growth and 57% net income increase in its most recent quarter. The broader market saw smaller moves, with the S&P 500 up 0.1%.

Yahoo Finance
Sep 21st, 2026
Autodesk revenue hits $7.8B, but stock down 32% on AI disruption fears

Autodesk shares trade at $217, down 32% from a year ago, despite revenue reaching $7.8 billion over the past twelve months, up 17.9%. Investors worry AI tools could disrupt its software business. A three-year scenario projects the stock could reach $315, representing 45% upside, if revenue grows 15.2% annually whilst net margin eases from 21.1% to 20.0%. This assumes earnings rise about 45% and the price-to-earnings ratio holds at 27.7 times. The company guided fiscal 2027 revenue to approximately $8.32 billion. Strong construction and emerging markets performance, plus growing adoption of its Fusion design platform, support the outlook. However, margin faces pressure from the MaintainX acquisition, which adds only $60 million revenue in fiscal 2027's second half whilst operating unprofitably. Management also expects AI workloads to squeeze gross margin somewhat.

Yahoo Finance
Sep 18th, 2026
Workday vs Autodesk: Which AI-powered software stock offers better value?

Workday and Autodesk both bet on monetising customer data through AI adoption. Workday manages HR and finance records, whilst Autodesk handles design, manufacturing, and construction data. Both companies raised guidance following strong fiscal Q2 2027 results. Workday lifted its fiscal 2027 subscription revenue outlook by 0.1%, projecting 11% subscription growth for fiscal 2028, down from 13% for fiscal 2027. Autodesk raised its total revenue outlook by 1.6%, including contributions from its MaintainX acquisition. Workday reports nearly $600 million in AI product annual recurring revenue, with over 200 customers using flex credits. However, Workday trades at a price-to-EBIT multiple of 33.0, compared to Autodesk's 21.1. Autodesk's revenue grew 17.9% over the past twelve months, versus Workday's 13.3%. Its GAAP operating margin reached 27.9%, more than double Workday's 12.0%.

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Sep 11th, 2026
Autodesk shares fall 17% despite raising forecast as one-time revenue boost won't repeat

Autodesk shares fell 16.6% in eight days through 9 September, despite recently reporting revenue and earnings above guidance. The software company's trailing twelve-month revenue reached $7.79 billion, up 17.9%, exceeding its three-year average growth of 14.4%. The company's CFO noted that a new transaction model added roughly 2 percentage points to second-quarter revenue growth of 16%, contributing about 1.5 points across the full fiscal year. This boost will not recur in fiscal 2028. Autodesk completed its acquisition of MaintainX on 3 August. The high-growth business was unprofitable at purchase and impacts fiscal 2027 operating margins. Management maintained its fiscal 2027 non-GAAP operating margin guidance and expects modest improvement to 39% in fiscal 2028, targeting 41% by fiscal 2029.

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Eaton and Autodesk are expanding their collaboration to streamline electrical system delivery in increasingly complex commercial buildings. Eaton developed Workbench 360, a connected platform that integrates its electrical equipment data and engineering expertise with Autodesk Revit, Autodesk Forma, and Autodesk Tandem. The platform aims to maintain visibility across the building lifecycle, from design through construction to operations. Engineers can access Eaton BIM content and product information during design, whilst Forma Build extends visibility to equipment status, submittals, and shipping information during execution. The collaboration addresses challenges including labour shortages, technical complexity, and coordination issues facing building project teams. Eaton reported revenues of $27.4 billion in 2025 and serves customers in 180 countries.