Senior Site Reliability Engineer
About the job
- A Bachelor of Science degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 7 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, or Production Operations.
- Experience operating and supporting customer-facing production services in large-scale cloud environments.
- Strong understanding of reliability engineering principles, including service-level objectives, service-level indicators, observability, incident management, capacity planning, production readiness, and automation.
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or other public cloud platforms.
- Experience developing automation using languages such as Python, Go, Java, PowerShell, Bash, or similar.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines, deployment automation, and modern cloud operations practices.
- Understanding of security, compliance, and operational risk management in production environments.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Must be a U.S. Citizen and meet applicable government security and eligibility requirements, including necessary background investigations and government-issued security clearances.
- Serve as a primary owner for the reliability, availability, performance, operability, and capacity of one or more production services.
- Deploy, operate, maintain, and continuously improve production services running in Autodesk GovCloud environments.
- Partner with engineering teams to ensure services are designed with reliability, scalability, security, and operability in mind.
- Define and operate reliability practices such as service-level objectives, service-level indicators, error budgets, production readiness reviews, service reviews, and operational health reviews.
- Build automation to improve deployment safety, operational efficiency, incident response, and service recovery.
- Design, develop, and maintain software, automation, and tooling that improve the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of production systems.
- Implement and improve monitoring, alerting, logging, tracing, and observability capabilities across supported services.
- Lead and participate in incident response, troubleshooting, and post-incident reviews focused on learning and continuous improvement.
- Develop and maintain operational documentation, runbooks, and recovery procedures.
- Scale and enhance resilience testing and Gameday practices to validate system behavior, recovery capabilities, and operational readiness.
- Continuously identify and eliminate operational toil through software engineering, automation, and process improvement.
- Ensure supported services remain compliant with Autodesk security, privacy, and regulatory requirements, including FedRAMP and related controls where applicable.
- Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation for production services.
- Help establish and mature operational excellence practices for Autodesk GovCloud.
- At least 10 years of experience operating highly available, customer-facing production systems.
- Experience with AWS GovCloud, FedRAMP, IL4/IL5, or other regulated cloud environments.
- Experience supporting services with stringent availability, reliability, and security requirements.
- Experience with containers, Kubernetes, cloud-native architectures, application programming interfaces, load balancing, networking, domain name system, and distributed systems.
- Experience with observability platforms such as Splunk, Dynatrace, Datadog, CloudWatch, or similar technologies.
- Experience operating databases, storage platforms, messaging systems, and caching technologies.
- Experience designing and implementing operational automation at scale.
- Experience leading or participating in Gamedays, disaster recovery exercises, resilience testing, or operational readiness reviews.
- Strong incident management experience, including technical leadership during major incidents and stakeholder communication.
- Ability to work effectively across engineering, security, compliance, and operations teams.
About the company
Autodesk produces software for design, engineering, and entertainment work. Its products help professionals create, plan, simulate, and manage projects—from buildings and manufactured parts to films and games—using licenses, subscriptions, and cloud-based tools. Users interact with Autodesk software by running design and modeling tools, collaborating online, and leveraging cloud services for storage, rendering, and project management. What sets Autodesk apart is its broad, integrated product ecosystem across architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, and media, along with ongoing cloud-based features, strategic acquisitions, and professional services that extend its capabilities. The company also pursues social impact and sustainability programs. The overall goal is to help customers design and deliver better projects more efficiently and creatively while expanding access to cloud-enabled workflows and sustainable practices.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
1982
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Q2 fiscal 2027 revenue rose 16% to $2.05 billion, showing durable demand.
- MaintainX closed August 3, 2026, expanding Autodesk into operations software with recurring ARR.
- Forma Building Design and Autodesk Assistant in Revit deepen platform lock-in across AEC workflows.
What critics are saying
- January 2026 layoffs cut 1,000 roles, signaling recurring sales disruption through fiscal 2027.
- MaintainX adds $3.6 billion debt-funded pressure while diluting margins until integration stabilizes.
- AI-native design tools threaten AutoCAD and Revit pricing power as customers adopt cheaper workflows.
What makes Autodesk unique
- AutoCAD, Revit, and Fusion own the design workflow from concept through operations.
- Autodesk bundles parametric geometry and physics-based AI, grounding outputs in real-world constraints.
- Forma and Revit now share data natively, reducing rework across planning, design, and construction.
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6 month growth
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↓ -2%2 year growth
↓ -2%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%.
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.
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%.
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.
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.