Senior Backend Software Engineer

Job Requisition ID #

26WD98263

Autodesk is seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team!
As part of your role, you will help design, build, and operate foundational backend services and platform capabilities powering Autodesk Construction Cloud (Forma). You will contribute to scalable cloud infrastructure, internal developer platforms, shared services, and backend systems used across all of the stacks.

Responsibilities
Work as a member of a self-organized agile platform team that builds, owns, and operates core backend services and infrastructure
Design and develop scalable backend systems and platform services using Node.js and TypeScript
Improve platform reliability, scalability, observability, and developer experience
Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, automation, deployment tooling, and operational excellence
Collaborate with engineering teams across the organization to enable efficient and reliable service integrations
Participate in architecture, performance optimization, monitoring, and production support

Minimum Qualifications
5+ years of experience building cloud-native backend systems using Node.js
Strong JavaScript/TypeScript experience
Experience designing scalable, reliable, and maintainable distributed systems
Strong understanding of APIs, cloud infrastructure, and backend architecture
Experience writing clean, performant, and production-ready code
Experience with observability, monitoring, and production operations
Excellent written and verbal technical communication skills (English)

Preferred Qualifications
Experience with platform engineering or infrastructure/backend platform teams
Experience with CI/CD, DevOps practices, and infrastructure automation
Experience with AWS and cloud-native architectures
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or containerized environments
Experience with Git or equivalent distributed revision control systems

Preferred Qualifications
Experience with platform engineering or infrastructure/backend platform teams
Experience with CI/CD, DevOps practices, and infrastructure automation
Experience with AWS and cloud-native architectures
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or containerized environments
Experience with Git or equivalent distributed revision control systems
Experience using AI-powered engineering tools and AI-assisted software development workflows (such as Claude Code, SDD, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar tools)

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