Software Development Manager, Flow Platform

Job Requisition ID #

26WD97958

Position Overview

Autodesk’s Media & Entertainment group is redefining the future of entertainment. We empower content creators to inspire, educate, and entertain while investing in our employees to build meaningful careers with us. Autodesk uniquely offers platforms, community, resources, best‑in‑class tools, and processes that unlock new levels of productivity and creativity in media and entertainment.

We are seeking a Software Development Manager to lead our Platform Operations team for Flow, Autodesk’s cloud platform powering next‑generation media and entertainment workflows.

This is a critical leadership role focused on operational excellence, reliability, and platform readiness at scale. You will lead a team responsible for defining and driving best practices across monitoring, alerting, incident response, CI/CD, and production readiness. You will partner closely with engineering, data, security, and infrastructure teams to ensure Flow services are reliable, scalable, and ready to support high‑growth products and AI/ML‑driven workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a high‑performing engineering team focused on platform operations and reliability.
• Define and drive operational excellence practices across Flow Platform (monitoring, alerting, on‑call, 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 and features.
• Lead performance testing, capacity planning, and system optimization initiatives.
• Build and scale observability capabilities (logging, monitoring, tracing) across distributed systems.
• Enable and support the rollout of AI & ML services by ensuring operational robustness and scalability.
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement within the team.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years in a technical leadership or management role.
• Experience operating large‑scale distributed systems in production environments.
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and modern service architectures.
• 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 (strongly preferred).
• 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 (Docker, Kubernetes).