# Principal Software Engineer

**Company**: Autodesk
**Location**: Sheffield
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Autodesk is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for a new Electron and Chromium-based desktop platform for Autodesk web applications.

In this hands-on individual contributor role, you will define the platform architecture, lead complex technical decisions, and guide engineers building the Electron runtime, Windows integrations, automated delivery systems, and shared platform capabilities.

**Responsibilities**

- Platform architecture and technical direction - approximately 30%

Define and evolve the architecture of the Electron desktop platform, including process boundaries, native capabilities, application interfaces, security controls, runtime configuration, and product integration patterns

- Hands-on platform engineering - approximately 25%

Design, prototype, implement, and review complex functionality across Electron, Chromium, Node.js, TypeScript, Windows APIs, and supporting native components

- Technical leadership and mentoring - approximately 20%

Guide engineers through design and implementation decisions, mentor team members, review complex changes, establish engineering standards, and help the team develop expertise in desktop platform engineering

- Cross-team integration and platform adoption - approximately 15%

Work with product teams and Autodesk platform teams responsible for security, identity, software distribution, telemetry, crash reporting, graphics, and other shared capabilities

- Operational readiness and engineering quality - approximately 10%

Partner with quality and release engineering to define release gates, runtime upgrade policies, observability, supportability, and production-readiness requirements

**Minimum Qualifications**

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience

- Strong software engineering experience with JavaScript or TypeScript and Node.js

- Significant experience designing and delivering complex software systems or platform capabilities

- Experience with Electron, Chromium-based applications, desktop application development, or comparable systems-level application platforms

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Deep experience with Electron architecture, including main, renderer, and preload processes, context isolation, inter-process communication, and security configuration

- Strong understanding of Chromium architecture, runtime configuration, feature flags, release lifecycle, and developer tooling

- Experience with C++, native Node.js modules, or interoperability between JavaScript and native platform APIs

**The Ideal Candidate**

- You enjoy solving technical problems that do not fit neatly into a single layer of the technology stack.

- You are equally comfortable discussing platform architecture, reviewing TypeScript, investigating Chromium behavior, debugging a Windows issue, examining a crash report, or helping an engineer reason through a difficult design problem.

- You remain hands-on while thinking beyond your own code.

- You recognize when a local implementation decision could create a long-term platform problem and work with the team to find a simpler, more maintainable solution.

## Skills

### Required
- Electron
- Chromium
- Node.js
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- Windows APIs
- desktop application development
- software engineering

### Nice to have
- C++
- native Node.js modules
- interoperability between JavaScript and native platform APIs
- Chromium architecture
- runtime configuration
- feature flags
- release lifecycle
- developer tooling

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