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Manager, Test Automation

Winnipeg, MB · On-site

CA$93K - CA$132K/yr

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Minimum 3 years of professional software development experience * Fluency in English and French ... Your work directly affects major enterprise clients with long-term contracts, providing both ...

Senior Manager - Data Engineering

Winnipeg, MB · On-site +1

CA$120K - CA$160K/yr

Lead the build-out of Canada's Gold/semantic consumption layer with data contracts and SLAs, and retire the legacy analytics warehouse. * Partner with the Lead Data Engineer on system design of our ...

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What is a software engineer contract?

Software engineer contracts are agreements where software engineers are hired on a temporary basis to work on specific projects or for a set period of time, rather than as permanent employees. Contractors often work for multiple clients, are paid hourly or per project, and may have more flexible schedules. These contracts outline the scope of work, compensation, deadlines, and other terms. Contract software engineers are responsible for delivering quality code and meeting the requirements set by the client or organization. This working arrangement can offer more autonomy, but also less job security and benefits compared to full-time employment.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a software engineer contract?

To thrive as a Software Engineer Contract, you need strong programming skills, a solid understanding of software development methodologies, and a relevant degree or proven experience in computer science or related fields. Familiarity with source control systems (e.g., Git), cloud platforms, and proficiency in languages or frameworks required by the contract are crucial, as are any certifications in areas like AWS or Agile methodologies. Excellent problem-solving, adaptability, and communication skills help you quickly integrate with new teams and deliver results in diverse environments. These skills ensure you can efficiently contribute to projects, meet client expectations, and maintain professional flexibility across various assignments.

What is the difference between Software Engineer Contract vs Software Engineer Full-Time?

AspectSoftware Engineer ContractSoftware Engineer Full-Time
Employment TypeTemporary, project-basedPermanent, ongoing
Work EnvironmentTypically freelance or agency-basedCompany offices or remote
CredentialsUsually similar certifications and skillsSame as contract roles
BenefitsLimited or no benefitsHealth, retirement, paid leave

In summary, Software Engineer Contract roles are temporary positions focused on specific projects, often with fewer benefits, while Software Engineer Full-Time roles offer permanent employment with comprehensive benefits. Both roles require similar skills and credentials but differ mainly in employment stability and perks.

What are some common challenges faced by software engineers working on contract positions, and how can they be managed?

Software engineers on contract often face challenges such as quickly adapting to new codebases, understanding diverse team workflows, and managing changing project scopes. It's important to proactively communicate with team members, clarify project requirements early on, and stay organized to meet tight deadlines. Additionally, maintaining a strong personal workflow and being open to feedback can help contract engineers integrate more smoothly and deliver high-quality results within limited timeframes.
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Principal Software Developer - Databases

Autodesk

Winnipeg, MB

Full-time

Posted 5 days ago


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Job description

Job Requisition ID #

26WD99177

L'affichage de poste en francais suivra / The French jobposting follows

26WD99177, Principal Software Developer - Databases

About Autodesk Construction Solutions @ Autodesk

Autodesk has fully reimagined the construction business for the digital age, enabling companies to address the most important challenges they face today while preparing for new ways of working in the future. The Autodesk Construction Solutions (ACS) portfolio connects the office, trailer, and field, enabling customers to move seamlessly through each phase of the construction lifecycle from design and preconstruction to construction, turnover, and operations. General contractors, subcontractors, and owners around the world rely on ACS to win more work, enhance collaboration, speed up decision-making, reduce risk, and improve overall project outcomes.

The Structured Record Storage group owns the shared data persistence layer for AEC: automated database fleet management, streaming to warehousing for analytics and ML, and the developer abstractions that decouple service logic from storage technology. We manage the entire database fleet (Postgres and DynamoDB, all production regions), own schema lifecycle from migration through regional deployment, and emit semantic events into Kafka so downstream teams never build raw reconstruction apps. SRS is a platform-grade function. We define the storage standards, enforce them, and build the tooling that makes compliance automatic instead of manual.

Position Overview

Autodesk Construction Solutions is looking for a senior technical contributor who brings deep expertise in cloud data infrastructure and uses it to shape how the division manages structured storage. This role sets technical direction across the SRS platform, from database fleet operations to the API abstractions and event contracts that sit on top, and leads high-impact initiatives end-to-end. You'll operate with significant autonomy, influence architecture decisions across teams, and raise the technical bar for how engineering teams build on shared storage infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Lead design and implementation of high-impact SRS platform capabilities: event platform CDC integration (Kafka), schema automation, Structured Record Access API, fleet management tooling

  • Set technical direction for one or more SRS sub-areas: architecture standards, design reviews, raising the bar on how the team builds

  • Continuously assess SRS cloud platform needs at scale, identify significant risks and gaps, and drive the roadmap to close them

  • Own and improve fleet-wide operations: capacity management, monitoring and alerting, query tuning, load optimization, and data replication for reporting workloads

  • Create and institutionalize best practices and health models for the database fleet; use observability tooling and AWS automation to enforce standards consistently across hundreds of managed databases

  • Build a high-impact network of storage champions across engineering groups, consult directly with product teams and group leads on storage readiness and risk, and select training opportunities that raise engineering capability division-wide

  • Own reliability for what you build: monitoring, runbooks, on-call response, post-incident learning

  • Partner with SRS area leadership across managed database platform, DevEx, and data warehousing to sequence work and make cross-team tradeoffs

  • Drive migration and schema lifecycle initiatives across the fleet, coordinating with product teams, managing rollout risk, validating rollback coverage

  • Mentor P2/P3 engineers; conduct design and code reviews with real feedback

  • Represent SRS technical requirements in cross-org forums: architecture review, group leadership

  • Provide tactical leadership during production emergencies

Minimum Qualifications

  • 6+ years of software engineering in a platform, infrastructure, or data engineering context

  • 5+ years of Kubernetes architecture at scale

  • 7+ years of Terraform experience

  • 7+ years of experience with cloud data technologies

  • Deep Postgres or DynamoDB experience at scale: fleet-level operations, not application-level use

  • Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects end-to-end: design through production

  • Hands-on Kafka or event streaming experience in production; bonus if you've built CDC pipelines (Postgres binlog, DynamoDB Streams, Debezium)

  • ORM experience at the framework or platform layer: you've built or extended ORM tooling to drive semantic eventing, not just consumed it

  • Kubernetes CRD hands-on experience: designing or operating controllers/operators that manage platform resources

  • Strong AWS background: IAM, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, ECS/EKS, multi-region

  • Able to drive technical alignment across opinionated teams; you've gotten three engineers with different opinions to agree on an approach

  • Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and GitOps deployment experience

  • Strong communication and organizational skills; you can influence outcomes across teams, groups, and leadership

Preferred Qualifications

  • You're a self-starter, comfortable driving work across a distributed group of service owners on different teams

  • You're a fearless problem-solver and model-driven thinker

  • You embrace big challenges and apply rigorous yet efficient methods to your solutions

  • You're results-driven, with a strong bias for action and a solid sense of accountability

The Ideal Candidate

  • Experience building or operating a managed Postgres platform

  • Customer Managed Keys (CMK): AWS KMS key policy design, envelope encryption, or CMK rotation in a regulated environment

  • Schema catalog, data governance, or data contract experience

  • Liquibase or equivalent schema migration tooling experience

  • Helm, ArgoCD, or Harness deployment pipeline experience

  • Apigee, LLM proxy, or API gateway platform experience

  • FedRAMP/IL4 compliance context in a cloud environment

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26WD99177, Developpeur logiciel principal - Bases de donnees

A propos d'Autodesk Construction Solutions chez Autodesk

Autodesk a entierement repense le secteur de la construction a l'ere du numerique, permettant ainsi aux entreprises de relever les defis les plus importants auxquels elles sont confrontees aujourd'hui tout en se preparant aux nouvelles methodes de travail de demain. Le portefeuille Autodesk Construction Solutions (ACS) relie le bureau, le chantier et le terrain, permettant ainsi aux clients de passer en toute fluidite d'une phase a l'autre du cycle de vie de la construction, de la conception et de la pre-construction a la construction, a la livraison et a l'exploitation. Partout dans le monde, les maitres d'uvre, les sous-traitants et les maitres d'ouvrage s'appuient sur ACS pour remporter davantage de marches, renforcer la collaboration, accelerer la prise de decision, reduire les risques et ameliorer les resultats globaux des projets.

Le groupe Structured Record Storage gere la couche de persistance des donnees partagees pour le secteur AEC : gestion automatisee du parc de bases de donnees, transmission en continu vers le stockage centralise a des fins d'analyse et d'apprentissage automatique, ainsi que les abstractions de developpement qui dissocient la logique des services de la technologie de stockage. Nous gerons l'ensemble du parc de bases de donnees (Postgres et DynamoDB, toutes les regions de production), prenons en charge le cycle de vie des schemas, de la migration au deploiement regional, et diffusons des evenements semantiques vers Kafka afin que les equipes en aval n'aient jamais a developper d'applications de reconstruction a partir de donnees brutes. SRS est une fonction au niveau de la plateforme. Nous definissons les normes de stockage, veillons a leur respect et developpons les outils qui automatisent la conformite au lieu de la laisser manuelle.

Presentation du poste

Autodesk Construction Solutions recherche un collaborateur technique senior apportant une expertise approfondie en infrastructure de donnees cloud et capable de l'utiliser pour faconner la maniere dont la division gere le stockage structure. Ce poste definit l'orientation technique de l'ensemble de la plateforme SRS, depuis l'exploitation du parc de bases de donnees jusqu'aux abstractions d'API et aux contrats d'evenements qui s'y superposent, et dirige de bout en bout des initiatives a fort impact. Vous travaillerez avec une grande autonomie, influencerez les decisions architecturales au sein des differentes equipes et rehausserez le niveau technique de la maniere dont les equipes d'ingenierie s'appuient sur l'infrastructure de stockage partagee.

Responsabilites

  • Diriger la conception et la mise en uvre de fonctionnalites a fort impact de la plateforme SRS : integration CDC (Kafka) a la plateforme d'evenements, automatisation des schemas, API d'acces aux enregistrements structures, outils de gestion du parc

  • Definir l'orientation technique d'un ou plusieurs sous-domaines de SRS : normes d'architecture, revues de conception, elevation des standards de developpement de l'equipe

  • Evaluer en continu les besoins de la plateforme cloud SRS a grande echelle, identifier les risques et lacunes significatifs, et piloter la feuille de route pour y remedier

  • Assurer et ameliorer les operations a l'echelle de l'ensemble du parc : gestion de la capacite, surveillance et alertes, optimisation des requetes, optimisation de la charge et replication des donnees pour les charges de travail de reporting

  • Creer et institutionnaliser les meilleures pratiques et les modeles de sante pour le parc de bases de donnees ; utiliser les outils d'observabilite et l'automatisation AWS pour appliquer les normes de maniere coherente sur des centaines de bases de donnees gerees

  • Construire un reseau influent de champions du stockage au sein des groupes d'ingenierie, consulter directement les equipes produit et les responsables de groupe sur l'etat de preparation et les risques lies au stockage, et selectionner des opportunites de formation qui renforcent les competences techniques a l'echelle de la division

  • Assumer la responsabilite de la fiabilite de ce que vous developpez : surveillance, guides d'intervention, gestion des astreintes, enseignements tires des incidents

  • Collaborer avec les responsables du domaine SRS (plateforme de bases de donnees gerees, DevEx et entrepots de donnees) pour hierarchiser les taches et trouver des compromis entre les equipes

  • Piloter les initiatives de migration et de gestion du cycle de vie des schemas a l'echelle du parc, en coordination avec les equipes produit, en gerant les risques de deploiement et en validant la couverture des retours en arriere

  • Encadrer les ingenieurs de niveaux P2/P3 ; mener des revues de conception et de code avec des retours constructifs

  • Representer les exigences techniques de SRS dans les forums inter-organisations : revues d'architecture, direction des groupes

  • Assurer un leadership tactique lors des urgences en production

Qualifications minimales

  • Au moins 6 ans d'experience en genie logiciel dans un contexte de plateforme, d'infrastructure ou d'ingenierie des donnees

  • Au moins 5 ans d'experience en architecture Kubernetes a grande echelle

  • Au moins 7 ans d'experience avec Terraform

  • Au moins 7 ans d'experience avec les technologies de donnees dans le cloud

  • Experience approfondie de Postgres ou DynamoDB a grande echelle : operations au niveau du parc, et non utilisation au niveau des applications

  • Capacite averee a diriger des projets techniques de bout en bout : de la conception a la production

  • Experience pratique de Kafka ou du streaming d'evenements en production ; un atout si vous avez developpe des pipelines CDC (binlog Postgres, DynamoDB Streams, Debezium)

  • Experience des ORM au niveau du framework ou de la plateforme : vous avez developpe ou etendu des outils ORM pour piloter la gestion semantique des evenements, et non pas simplement les utilise

  • Experience pratique des CRD Kubernetes : conception ou exploitation de controleurs/operateurs gerant les ressources de la plateforme

  • Solide experience AWS : IAM, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, ECS/EKS, deploiement multiregional

  • Capacite a assurer la cohesion technique au sein d'equipes aux opinions bien arretees ; vous avez reussi a mettre d'accord trois ingenieurs aux points de vue divergents sur une approche commune

  • Experience en Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) et en deploiement GitOps

  • Solides competences en communication et en organisation ; vous savez influencer les resultats au sein des equipes, des groupes et de la direction

Qualifications souhaitees

  • Vous faites preuve d'initiative et etes a l'aise pour piloter le travail au sein d'un groupe distribue de responsables de services issus de differentes equipes

  • Vous etes un resolveur de problemes intrepide et un penseur axe sur les modeles

  • Vous relevez les grands defis et appliquez des methodes rigoureuses mais efficaces a vos solutions

  • Vous etes axe(e) sur les resultats, avec un fort penchant pour l'action et un sens solide des responsabilites

Le candidat ideal

  • Experience dans la mise en place ou l'exploitation d'une plateforme Postgres geree

  • Cles gerees par le client (CMK) : conception de politiques de cles AWS KMS, chiffrement d'enveloppe ou rotation des CMK dans un environnement reglemente

  • Experience en matiere de cat...


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Autodesk is changing how the world is designed and made. Our technology spans architecture, engineering, construction, product design, manufacturing, media, and entertainment, empowering innovators everywhere to solve challenges big and small. From greener buildings to smarter products to more mesmerizing blockbusters, Autodesk software helps our customers to design and make a better world for all. For more information visit autodesk.com or follow @autodesk.

Industry

Software development

Company size

10,000+ Employees

Headquarters location

San Rafael, CA, US

Year founded

1982