Software Development Manager, Platform Engineering

🕒 September 29

⛰️ Colorado, Oregon, +2 more states – Remote

⛰️ Colorado – Remote 🌲 Oregon – Remote 🤠 Texas – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $148k - $265k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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Autodesk

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1982

🏗️ Construction

🏭 Manufacturing

💼 Consulting

Construction • Manufacturing • Consulting

Autodesk is a global leader in software for designers, engineers, builders, and creators. The company provides a comprehensive suite of design and engineering applications including popular products like AutoCAD, Revit, and 3ds Max. Through its Design and Make Platform, Autodesk empowers professionals across various industries to design, visualize, and manage projects efficiently, facilitating innovation and sustainability in architecture, engineering, construction, and manufacturing.

📋 Description

• 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 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 software engineering principles, code quality, scalability, maintainability, and system reliability • Design and scale distributed systems, microservices, and RESTful APIs • Guide teams in developing resilient, scalable, and maintainable backend services • Promote best practices across architecture, development, testing, deployment, and operational excellence • Oversee 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 • Identify opportunities for automation, scalability, and improved developer experiences • Drive technical solutions supporting 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 development of reliable APIs, microservices, and asynchronous workflows • Evaluate and improve system scalability, performance, reliability, and operational resilience

🎯 Requirements

• 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 • 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

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual cash bonuses may be included • Stock grants may be included • Comprehensive benefits package • Health and financial benefits • Time away and everyday wellness benefits • In-person onboarding and/or in-person ID verification may be required