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)

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À propos d’Autodesk/ About Autodesk

Bienvenue chez Autodesk ! Nos logiciels créent chaque jour des choses extraordinaires : des bâtiments les plus écologiques aux voitures les plus propres, en passant par les usines les plus intelligentes et les films à succès. Nous aidons les innovateurs à concrétiser leurs idées, transformant non seulement la façon dont les choses sont fabriquées, mais aussi ce qui peut l’être. Nous sommes très fiers de notre culture chez Autodesk ; elle est au cœur de tout ce que nous faisons. Notre culture guide notre façon de travailler et de nous comporter les uns envers les autres, influence nos interactions avec nos clients et nos partenaires, et définit notre image au monde. En tant qu’Autodeskien, vous pouvez accomplir un travail significatif qui contribue à bâtir un monde meilleur, conçu et réalisé pour tous. Prêt à façonner le monde et votre avenir ? Rejoignez-nous !

Welcome to Autodesk! Amazing things are created every day with our software – from the greenest buildings and cleanest cars to the smartest factories and biggest hit movies. We help innovators turn their ideas into reality, transforming not only how things are made, but what can be made.

We take great pride in our culture here at Autodesk – it’s at the core of everything we do. Our culture guides the way we work and treat each other, informs how we connect with customers and partners, and defines how we show up in the world.

When you’re an Autodesker, you can do meaningful work that helps build a better world designed and made for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!

Transparence salariale / 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.

Diversité et appurtenance / Diversity & Belonging

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