Data Engineering at Autodesk

Roles, Comp & Culture

An L5 senior data engineer at Autodesk sits around $280K total comp from 16 verified salary datapoints. The primary Data Engineering tech consists of Airflow, AWS and dbt, according to current job listings. Autodesk pays data engineers above other Technology companies. Reviews put them at 4.0 on Glassdoor, a little above the middle of the pack. Autodesk employees are stressed and employee happiness is trending down over the past year. Layoff risk scores low for the next 30 days. 8 data engineering roles are open right now.

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Autodesk data engineer compensation

Each level's figure is the median of individual Autodesk offers at that level, so it reflects a typical outcome rather than an average pulled up by a few large packages. Total comp counts base salary plus equity and bonus annualized over the vest, and the range shown is the middle half of offers, with the top and bottom quarters trimmed off.

L4Mid$185Kmedian
Base$155KRange$160K–$239KReports11 · 2-5 yrsAutodesk loop
L5Senior$280Kmedian
Base$176KRange$229K–$282KReports6 · 5-10 yrsAutodesk loop
Updated 16 verified salary reports + 1 salary adjusted to total comp

Autodesk employee sentiment, tracked weekly

Employee happiness for data engineers over the past year, so you can see which direction it is moving, not just where it sits today.

Stressedtrending down over the past year
20252026
Updated Autodesk employee happiness

Recent Autodesk events

Layoffs, leadership changes, and other major moves at the company, with dates.

  1. Exec departureApr 2026Leadership change
  2. LayoffApr 2026~104 roles cut
  3. LayoffJan 2026Layoff
  4. LayoffJan 2026~1,000 roles cut
  5. Exec departureJun 2025Leadership change
  6. Exec departureMay 2025Leadership change
  7. Exec departureApr 2025Leadership change
  8. M&AApr 2025Acquisition / merger
  9. Exec departureApr 2025Leadership change
  10. Exec departureFeb 2025Leadership change
  11. LayoffFeb 2025Layoff
  12. Exec departureJan 2025Leadership change
  13. Exec departureDec 2024Leadership change
Updated 13 Autodesk events, 4 with headcount

Notable company events we track, with dates.

Autodesk data engineering tech stack

The languages, storage, and processing tools Autodesk data engineers actually work with, grouped by what they do. Tailor your system-design answers to this stack.

Languages
Python
SQLSQL
PySpark
Java
Warehouse / SQL
Snowflake
Hive
Redshift
Athena
Streaming
Kafka
Flink
Orchestration
Airflow
dbt
FivetranFivetran
Compute
EMR
Spark
Lambda
Storage
S3
Cloud
AWS
Updated from current job listings

Autodesk data engineer job openings

A live read on what they are hiring: open roles, recent postings, where, and at what level.

Practice for the Autodesk loop

Round by round, the problems our model predicts for this company's interview. Rehearse the shapes their panels keep returning to.

Preparing for the Autodesk loop

The round-by-round process, example questions, and prep plan are on the interview guide.

Compare Autodesk with other data engineering employers

How the role, pay, and loop stack up against peer companies.

02 / Why practice

Prepare at Autodesk interview difficulty

  1. 01

    Reading a solution is not the same as writing one

    Every engineer who has frozen on a query they had read a dozen times knows the gap. The only preparation that closes it is producing the answer yourself, under time, before the interview does it for you

  2. 02

    76% of hiring managers reject on the coding task, not the resume

    From HackerRank's 2024 Developer Skills Report. Candidates who look strong on paper still fail the live screen if they haven't done timed, executable practice

  3. 03

    5 problem shapes cover 80% of data engineer loops

    Dedup, sessionization, top-N-per-group, slowly-changing dimensions, partition tricks. Writing the shapes by hand turns the unfamiliar into pattern recognition

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