Software Development Manager, Platform Engineering

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and support the growth of a high-performing Platform and DevOps engineering team
• Own delivery for business applications, including roadmap execution, release planning, and risk management
• Evolve Kubernetes/EKS environments and drive GitOps and CI/CD best practices
• Build paved roads, templates, and reusable developer workflows to improve engineering productivity
• Establish and improve SLOs, SLIs, on-call practices, and incident response processes
• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Design, Security, and Engineering stakeholders

Requirements

• 3+ years of people leadership experience managing and developing engineers
• 7+ years of engineering experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering
• Strong expertise with AWS services including EKS, EC2, S3, RDS, and VPC networking
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes operations, Helm, and infrastructure security
• Proficiency in building CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows
• Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or AWS CDK
• Programming experience in Python, Java, TypeScript, or Node.js
• Familiarity with SRE practices, including incident management and SLIs/SLOs

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building or operating Internal Developer Platforms (IDP)
• Familiarity with service meshes, policy engines, and platform governance
• Experience supporting multi-region architectures and resilience engineering
• Knowledge of observability platforms, distributed tracing, and synthetic monitoring
• Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging systems like Kafka or Kinesis

Benefits

• Comprehensive health and financial benefits
• Time away and everyday wellness programs
• Competitive compensation including annual cash bonuses and stock grants

About the Company

Autodesk helps innovators turn their ideas into reality, transforming how things are made, from the greenest buildings to the smartest factories and biggest hit movies. We take great pride in our culture, which guides how we work, treat each other, and connect with customers and partners.