Software Development Manager

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team focused on platform operations and reliability
• Define and drive operational excellence practices including monitoring, alerting, on-call, and incident management
• Define and evolve SLOs, SLIs, and reliability standards across platform services
• Own and improve incident response processes, including detection, triage, resolution, and postmortems
• Drive adoption of best-in-class CI/CD and release practices to improve deployment safety and developer velocity
• Partner with product and engineering teams to ensure production readiness and scalability of new services
• Lead performance testing, capacity planning, and system optimization initiatives
• Build and scale observability capabilities across distributed systems
• Enable and support the rollout of AI & ML services by ensuring operational robustness

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
• 7+ years of software engineering experience
• 2+ years in a technical leadership or management role
• Experience operating large-scale distributed systems in production environments
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, release engineering, and deployment strategies
• Hands-on experience with monitoring, alerting, and observability tools
• Proven ability to lead incident response and improve operational processes
• Strong communication and collaboration skills across cross-functional teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering
• Experience with SLO/SLI frameworks and reliability engineering practices
• Experience supporting high-scale or high-throughput systems
• Familiarity with AI/ML or data-intensive platforms
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes

About the Company

Autodesk's Media & Entertainment group is redefining the future of entertainment. We empower content creators to inspire, educate, and entertain while providing the platforms, community, and best-in-class tools that unlock new levels of productivity and creativity.