Software Development Manager, Flow Platform

Position Overview Autodesk’s Media & Entertainment (M&E) 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. This is your opportunity to shape how a modern cloud platform operates at scale—driving reliability, improving developer velocity, and enabling the next generation of AI‑powered creative tools. 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) Salary Transparency Le salaire est l'un des éléments du programme de rémunération concurrentiel d'Autodesk.

Pour les postes basés au Canada, nous offrons un salaire de base entre $0 et $0. Le salaire est déterminé selon l'expérience professionnelle et l'emplacement du candidat(e). En plus du salaire de base, notre programme de rémunération peut inclure une prime annuelle, des commissions pour les postes de ventes, des attributions d'actions et un ensemble complet d'avantages sociaux.

Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For Canada based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $0 and $0. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location, and may exceed this range.

In addition to base salaries, our compensation package may include annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package. #J-18808-Ljbffr