# Principal Engineer **Company**: Autodesk **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location. **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://autodesk.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Ext/job/Singapore-SGP/Principal-Software-Engineer_26WD97610-1?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_91d28b97-99e ## Description We are building a large-scale, API-first streaming platform on Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, and AWS. The platform powers near-real-time ingestion, processing, and delivery of data for many internal and product-facing use cases. Everything is exposed and governed behind well-designed APIs, and teams consume capabilities through a self-serve portal as well as programmatic interfaces. As a Principal Engineer, you will own architecture and technical design for this platform: from stream topology and operational model to control-plane services, developer experience, and production excellence. This is a high-impact role with real architectural ownership - you will partner across product, platform, and data teams, mentor engineers, and raise the bar on reliability, security, and velocity. **Responsibilities** - Architect and design the streaming platform - Define end-to-end architecture for stream processing: ingest, stateful processing, delivery, replay, and integration with downstream systems on Flink and Kafka - Design API-first boundaries (REST and event-driven patterns as appropriate) so streams, jobs, schemas, and operational workflows are manageable and safe at scale - Shape multi-tenant or multi-team patterns: quotas, isolation, naming, observability, and upgrade strategies for long-running Flink workloads - Evolve AWS-native deployment and operations (networking, IAM, scaling, resilience patterns) aligned with organisational security and compliance requirements - Build and evolve platform surfaces - Lead design of Spring Boot-based services that implement the platform control plane, metadata, orchestration hooks, and integration with Kafka/Flink operations - Contribute to the self-serve portal and related UX: work with product and design and apply solid frontend engineering practices so internal users can onboard, configure, and operate without excessive manual support - Drive developer experience: documentation, SDKs or clients where applicable, golden paths, and reducing time-to-first-successful pipeline - Engineer for scale, reliability, and cost - Define and refine SLIs/SLOs, capacity planning, backpressure handling, and failure modes for streaming workloads - Institutionalise testing (unit, integration, contract, load) and progressive delivery for streaming jobs and services - Champion observability: metrics, tracing, structured logging, and actionable alerting for Kafka, Flink, and surrounding services - CI/CD, infrastructure, and operations - Own and improve CI/CD pipelines for application code, infrastructure, and safe promotion of Flink jobs and configuration - Partner on Infrastructure as Code, environment strategy, and operational runbooks; participate in on-call or operational escalation as appropriate for a principal (you build it, you run it mindset) - Lead technically and collaborate - Translate ambiguous requirements into clear technical strategies, RFCs, and phased execution plans - Mentor engineers, lead architecture and code reviews, and align teams on standards for Java, APIs, streaming, and AWS usage - Work with security, networking, and platform teams on secure-by-design streaming and API patterns **What success looks like** - A clear, documented architecture for the streaming platform that teams can adopt without heroics - Reliable, observable Kafka and Flink estates with predictable scaling and incident response - APIs and self-serve flows that reduce tickets, manual operations, and time-to-production for stream owners - Stronger engineering practices - CI/CD, testing, reviews - and a more capable team around you **Minimum qualifications** - 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including deep hands-on ownership of distributed systems in production - Expert-level experience with Apache Kafka (topics, partitioning, consumer groups, reliability, operations) and Apache Flink (state, checkpoints, rescaling, fault tolerance, performance tuning) - Sustained production ownership, not occasional use - Strong proficiency in Java as the primary language for large, maintainable systems - Demonstrated experience with Spring Boot (or equivalent JVM microservices frameworks) building production APIs and services - Hands-on AWS experience designing and operating services (compute, networking, IAM, observability patterns; familiarity with Kubernetes or managed container/orchestration patterns where the platform runs) - Proven CI/CD experience (pipeline design, artifact promotion, testing gates) and infrastructure management (IaC concepts, environments, drift, operational change) - Experience shipping user-facing or internal portals or significant full-stack contributions - enough to partner credibly with frontend specialists and own end-to-end delivery for self-serve workflows - Excellent communication skills; ability to drive consensus across engineering, product, and operations **Preferred qualifications** - Experience building or operating a streaming/data platform used by many teams (not a single standalone pipeline) - Familiarity with schema governance, serialisation formats, and compatibility across producers and consumers - Experience with AWS managed streaming or related services (e.g., MSK, Kinesis) where relevant to hybrid architectures - Background in observability stacks tailored to Kafka and Flink - Contributions to technical standards, guilds, or cross-org architecture forums **The Ideal Candidate** - You are a builder and systems thinker: you care about clean abstractions, thoughtful APIs, and operable designs - You are comfortable with ambiguity and turn it into architecture, milestones, and measurable outcomes - You balance velocity with sustainability - performance, security, and long-term maintainability matter as much as shipping ## Skills ### Required - Apache Kafka - Apache Flink - AWS - Java - Spring Boot - CI/CD - Infrastructure Management ### Nice to have - schema governance - serialisation formats - AWS managed streaming - observability stacks --- Source: [Apply at autodesk.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com](https://autodesk.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Ext/job/Singapore-SGP/Principal-Software-Engineer_26WD97610-1?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)