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Senior Back End Software Development Engineer

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The Senior Back End Software Development Engineer will build and maintain distributed systems, write testable code, automate processes, and support internal teams, while leveraging AWS technologies and DevOps practices.
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Job Description
Position Overview

Does automation and a fast-paced environment excite you? Do you thrive on building resilient, scalable systems? Do you have a passion for uptime?
The Autodesk Developer Enablement team seeks a highly motivated, seasoned Senior Back End Software Development Engineer to build and maintain a distributed compute system. You will be part of a team that designs, builds, and operates services used by developers across Autodesk. You will work alongside other engineers to support daily operations and our long-term roadmap.
A successful Senior Back End Software Development Engineer has a strong sense of ownership and can drive projects through to completion.

We are looking for someone who is excited to shape a platform that allows teams to register, schedule, and control jobs based on the requirements with minimal latency.

As a key member of our team, you’ll tackle scale, distributed systems challenges, and customer-facing operations while working with cutting-edge AWS serverless tech.

Hybrid role with at least one day onsite in the Dublin office. 

Responsibilities
•    Write code that is testable, readable, and maintainable
•    Perform code reviews
•    Engage in technical and architectural discussions and decision-making
•    Proactively automate processes and improve code quality
•    Troubleshoot issues using distributed logging and tracing
•    Support internal development teams by answering questions and creating sample code
•    Participate in on-call rotations to support production systems

Minimum Qualifications
•    4 years of hands-on software development experience in a language like Go, or Python.
•    4 years of experience leveraging public cloud infrastructure components like compute, caches, and databases
•    Experience implementing unit and integration tests
•    Understanding of DevOps best practices
•    Good self-management skills and the ability to track and prioritise multiple tasks coming in simultaneously
•    Experience working with containers

•    Experience building apps on AWS using services such as ECS/EKS, Step Functions, Lambda
•    Experience with Agile software development practices
•    Good understanding of networking and security concepts

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Top Skills

AWS
Containers
Ecs
Eks
Go
Lambda
Python
Step Functions

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