Principal Engineer (Backend), Commerce Platform

Job description

Position Overview

Autodesk is building a shared AI-assisted commerce platform that enables AI copilots and agents to safely discover, recommend, and transact Autodesk offerings. As a Principal  Engineer, you will design and build the core APIs and orchestration layer (MCP) that connects AI systems to Autodesk’s commerce infrastructure—pricing, subscriptions, entitlements, and checkout—with enterprise-grade reliability, security, and governance.
This role sits at the intersection of platform engineering, distributed systems, and applied AI enablement.

Responsibilities

• Build the AI-to-commerce orchestration layer (MCP): Design and implement the runtime and APIs that allow copilots/agents to invoke commerce capabilities safely and consistently (e.g., product discovery → pricing → eligibility/entitlements → checkout)

• Define “agent-safe” platform primitives: Create standardized patterns for tool invocation (idempotency, retries, rate limits, validation), error contracts, and deterministic behaviors suitable for LLM/agent workflows

• Integrate with core commerce systems: Build adapters and service interfaces to existing commerce capabilities (pricing, subscriptions, entitlements, checkout), including backward compatibility and rollout strategies

• Enterprise reliability & operability: Own service SLOs/SLIs, observability (logs/metrics/traces), resilience patterns, and incident readiness; drive post-incident improvements

• Security & governance by design: Implement strong authN/authZ, tenant isolation, secrets management, auditability, policy enforcement, and safe guardrails around agent actions (approvals, constraints, and traceability)

• Platform quality and developer experience: Provide SDKs, documentation, reference implementations, and golden paths so product teams can integrate agents quickly and safely

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