Senior Software Engineer(Java, AWS)

Job Requisition ID #

25WD94321

Position Overview

The Autodesk Platform Services and Emerging Technologies team is looking for a passionate Senior Software Engineer to join our Forge Data team, focused on building next-generation real-time collaboration infrastructure. You will work on Locking and Presence services that power collaborative editing experiences across Autodesk products-enabling millions of users to interact with shared data concurrently, reliably, and at scale.

Our ecosystem spans distributed cloud services, real-time systems, and web client integrations, where low-latency synchronisation, consistency, and scalability are critical. You will be based in Pune and report to a Software Development Manager. This is an opportunity to design and build highly concurrent, globally distributed systems, and work alongside some of the best engineers in the industry.

Responsibilities

• Design and build low-latency Locking and Presence services for real-time collaboration
• Develop highly concurrent, distributed systems handling millions of active sessions and events
• Build and optimize WebSocket-based and event-driven architectures (Pub/Sub, streaming)
• Implement state synchronization mechanisms (presence, session state, ephemeral locks)
• Design fault-tolerant and eventually consistent systems for real-time updates
• Develop scalable REST, gRPC and real-time APIs consumed by web and desktop clients
• Ensure high availability, observability, and resilience under heavy load
• Collaborate with frontend and platform teams to deliver seamless collaboration experiences
• Contribute to design reviews, architecture discussions, and technical strategy

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of production-level Java development experience
• Strong hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, and RESTful services
• Experience building highly concurrent systems (multi-threading, async processing, event-driven systems)
• Hands-on experience with AWS (or similar cloud platforms): SQS, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, IAM, etc
• Experience designing and operating scalable cloud-native services
• Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals:
• Consistency models
• Fault tolerance
• Experience with unstructured and semi-structured data systems
• Experience using Terraform (Infrastructure as Code)
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Git-based workflows, and testing frameworks
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building real-time systems:
• WebSockets, Pub/Sub, streaming architectures
• Experience with collaborative systems:
• Presence, session management, locking
• Understanding of event ordering, deduplication, and idempotency strategies
• Experience designing low-latency, high-throughput systems
• Knowledge of caching strategies and distributed data stores (Redis, DynamoDB patterns)
• Exposure to multi-region deployments and scaling strategies
• Experience with load testing and performance tuning at scale

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Client-provided location(s): Pune, India

Job ID: autodesk-25WD94321

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2026-01-08T19:16:28