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Position Overview
We’re looking for a seasoned, hands-on Software Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing full-stack engineering team supporting our horizontal services and core technology platforms.
In this role, you’ll balance technical leadership with people management while guiding engineers through complex architectural decisions, delivering scalable solutions, and driving technical strategy across core domains. You’ll partner closely with Product Management, Visual Design, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into reliable, scalable, and developer-friendly solutions.
This is a hands-on leadership opportunity where you’ll mentor and grow engineers, remove technical and delivery blockers, communicate project health and risks to stakeholders, and drive engineering excellence across modern application and platform environments.
The ideal candidate brings strong software engineering fundamentals, robust backend infrastructure experience, and experience building and scaling (CMS), experimentation frameworks, and self-service platforms.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and support the growth of a high-performing full-stack engineering team
- Foster an inclusive, collaborative environment that empowers engineers to make autonomous technical decisions
- Own project delivery, including roadmap execution, planning, risk management, and operational follow-through
- Provide regular project status updates, metrics, progress reporting, and risk assessments to cross-functional stakeholders and leadership
- Proactively identify and resolve technical and project bottlenecks, escalating issues effectively to keep initiatives on track
- Partner closely with Product Management, Visual Design, and engineering teams to align priorities and deliver business outcomes
- Drive technical direction and architectural decisions for core horizontal services and platforms
- Champion strong software engineering principles, code quality, scalability, maintainability, and system reliability
- Design and scale distributed systems, microservices, and RESTful APIs
- Guide engineering teams in developing resilient, scalable, and maintainable backend services
- Promote engineering best practices across architecture, development, testing, deployment, and operational excellence
- Oversee the development and scaling of experimentation frameworks, (CMS), and self-service workflows
- Build platforms and tools that enable engineering teams and internal customers to work more efficiently and independently
- Partner with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities for automation, scalability, and improved developer experiences
- Drive technical solutions that support evolving business requirements and high-scale application environments
- Design and support event-driven architectures and distributed systems
- Work with streaming and messaging technologies such as Kafka
- Guide the development of reliable APIs, microservices, and asynchronous workflows
- Evaluate and improve system scalability, performance, reliability, and operational resilience
Minimum Qualifications
- 3+ years of people leadership experience managing and developing software engineers
- 10+ years of total software engineering experience
- Strong foundation in computer science, software architecture, and software design principles
- Proven experience leading engineering teams through complex technical projects and delivering business-critical solutions
- Strong experience designing and scaling distributed systems, microservices, and RESTful APIs
- Experience with event-driven development and streaming/messaging technologies such as Kafka
- Strong understanding of modern frontend ecosystems, including React
- Experience with modern (CMS)
- Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Java, Python, or Node.js
- Strong communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate project health, technical risks, dependencies, and escalation resolutions to stakeholders and leadership
- Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with Product, Design, and Engineering organizations
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building or operating experimentation or A/B testing platforms
- Experience developing self-service platforms and internal engineering tools
- Experience with large-scale content management platforms and workflows
- Strong understanding of cloud-native application architecture and distributed infrastructure
- Experience with asynchronous processing, event-driven systems, and messaging architectures
- Experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives spanning multiple engineering teams
- Experience improving developer productivity through automation, platform capabilities, and reusable services
- Strong track record of developing engineering talent and building high-performing technical organizations
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About Autodesk
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!
Benefits
From health and financial benefits to time away and everyday wellness, we give Autodeskers the best, so they can do their best work. Learn more about our benefits in the U.S. by visiting https://benefits.autodesk.com/
Salary transparency
Equal Employment Opportunity
At Autodesk, we're building a diverse workplace and an inclusive culture to give more people the chance to imagine, design, and make a better world. Autodesk is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic. We also consider for employment all qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.
Belonging
We take pride in cultivating a culture of belonging where everyone can thrive. Learn more here: https://www.autodesk.com/company/global-belonging
In-Person Onboarding and Identity Verification
This role may require in-person onboarding and/or in-person ID verification.
Skills Required
- At least 3 years of people leadership managing engineers
- At least 7 years total engineering experience with AWS and DevOps/Platform
- Proven track record owning delivery of a business application
- In-depth knowledge of AWS: EC2, EKS, VPC, RDS, S3, API Gateway
- Infrastructure as Code at scale
- Kubernetes/EKS operations knowledge
- CI/CD tools experience
- Programming experience in Python and/or Java, TypeScript/Node.js
- SRE mindset knowledge
- Excellent communication skills
Autodesk Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Autodesk and has not been reviewed or approved by Autodesk.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time away is considered expansive, combining discretionary time off for salaried roles, company holidays/Autodays, and a periodic paid sabbatical. These options provide flexibility beyond standard accrual-based PTO.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Total rewards prominently include RSUs and an employee stock purchase plan with a discount and lookback, alongside annual bonus or commission programs. These elements are available to eligible employees and can materially augment base pay.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-building support includes reimbursement for adoption, surrogacy, IVF/co‑maternity, and fertility benefits, plus dedicated coaching and Cleo resources for parenting and caregiving. These services extend support before, during, and after leave.
Autodesk Insights
What We Do
Autodesk makes software for people who make things. If you’ve ever driven a high-performance car, admired a towering skyscraper, used a smartphone, or watched a great film, chances are you’ve experienced what millions of Autodesk customers are doing with our software. Autodesk gives you the power to make anything. Over 100 million people use Autodesk software like AutoCAD, Revit, Maya, 3ds Max, Fusion 360, SketchBook, and more to unlock their creativity and solve important design, business and environmental challenges. Our software runs on both personal computers and mobile devices and taps the infinite computing power of the cloud to help teams around the world collaborate, design, simulate and fabricate their ideas in 3D. We provide exceptional compensation/benefit packages and we’d love for you to join us. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, gender, disability, veteran status or other protected category. To see our culture in action, check out #AutodeskLife. We are headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area and have more than 10,000 employees worldwide.
Why Work With Us
Our work is impactful. Our people are innovative. And our culture is inclusive. As our software shapes new solutions to the world’s biggest challenges, you shape your career path. With us, you lead the way in achieving sustainability, resilient communities, and an equitable workforce. Discover #AutodeskLife.
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