Senior Software Developer Manager
Job Fit Check
Base Career helps you apply smarter for this job.
Key skills for this role
About the Role
Autodesk is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead multiple cloud engineering teams building scalable, cloud-native platform services for asset management and workflow orchestration.
Key Skills for This Role
Responsibilities
- Manage and grow multiple cloud engineering teams, fostering a culture of ownership, quality, and continuous improvement
- Deliver highly scalable, resilient services for asset management and workflow orchestration
- Partner with Product and Architecture to define roadmaps aligned with customer and business needs
- Lead adoption of cloud native architectures (microservices, event driven systems, APIs)
- Drive best practices in CI/CD, observability, security, and SRE principles
- Build platforms that support real world production environments, including high throughput, latency sensitive workflows
- Work closely with cross functional teams across platforms, applications, and studios/customers
Requirements
- 10+ years in software engineering, including people management experience
- Proven experience leading multiple engineering teams
- Strong background in cloud platforms and distributed systems
- Experience delivering production grade systems at scale
Full Job Posting
Job Overview
- Autodesk is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to strengthen leadership across their Asset Management and Flow Platform, powering cloud based workflows used in media, entertainment, and design production pipelines.
- You will lead multiple engineering teams to deliver scalable, cloud native platform services that manage digital assets and orchestrate complex workflows across production environments.
What You’ll Do
- Manage and grow multiple cloud engineering teams, fostering a culture of ownership, quality, and continuous improvement.
- Set clear priorities and drive execution across interconnected platform domains.
- Deliver highly scalable, resilient services for asset management and workflow orchestration.
- Partner with Product and Architecture to define roadmaps aligned with customer and business needs.
- Ensure systems are designed for performance, reliability, and global scale.
- Lead adoption of cloud native architectures (microservices, event driven systems, APIs).
- Drive best practices in CI/CD, observability, security, and SRE principles.
- Guide teams in leveraging AWS, Azure, or GCP ecosystems effectively.
- Build platforms that support real world production environments, including high throughput, latency sensitive workflows.
- Ensure strong operational readiness, incident management, and service reliability.
- Work closely with cross functional teams across platforms, applications, and studios/customers.
- Influence technical decisions across teams and contribute to broader platform direction.
Minimum Qualifications
- 10+ years in software engineering, including people management experience.
- Proven experience leading multiple engineering teams.
- Strong background in cloud platforms and distributed systems.
- Experience delivering production grade systems at scale.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in Media & Entertainment (M&E) or similar production environments (e.g., VFX, animation, gaming pipelines).
- Familiarity with asset management systems, content pipelines, or workflow orchestration platforms.
- Hands on experience with cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) and modern DevOps practices.
- Strong understanding of data intensive systems and storage solutions.
Why Autodesk
- Join a team building the platforms behind the world’s most creative industries—from film and TV to game development and design.
- You’ll help shape systems that enable teams to create, manage, and deliver content at global scale.
Salary Transparency
- For Canada based roles, we expect a starting base salary between CAD 156,000 and CAD 228,800.
- 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.
Apply for this job in 1 click
Skip the repetitive application forms
Install the Base Career Chrome Extension and autofill job applications across major job boards with your profile.
Trusted by over 500,000 job seekers on Base Career
More from this employer
More jobs at Autodesk
Principal Platform Product Owner
Montreal, CAN
Autodesk is seeking a Principal Platform Product Owner in Montreal to bridge product vision and engineering execution for a new SaaS platform. The role requires 4+ years of product ownership experience, strong ability to
Research Lead / Principal Scientist & Manager Post-Training · Alignment · Reinforcement Learning Autodesk AI Lab: Toronto · Remote (CA)
Montreal, CAN
Autodesk AI Lab seeks a Research Lead to own post-training and alignment strategy for foundation models. You will lead a team of AI scientists, develop novel algorithms, and publish at top venues. Requires deep RL expert
Senior Digital Growth Product Manager
Montreal, CAN
Autodesk is seeking a Senior Digital Growth Product Manager to join the Marketing Experiences Product Team in Montreal. The role focuses on accelerating growth across digital marketing experiences through experimentation
Software Architect, AI/ML
Montreal, CAN
Autodesk seeks a Software Architect for AI/ML to design and build cloud-native AI agents for PDM/PLM workflows. The role involves architecting scalable services, defining model strategy, and setting technical direction.
Senior Program Manager, GTM PMO
Vancouver, CAN
Autodesk seeks a Senior Program Manager to lead GTM transformation programs end-to-end. You will drive cross-functional alignment, manage dependencies, and deliver measurable business outcomes. Ideal candidates have 5+ y
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, MLOps West Coast
Vancouver, CAN
Autodesk is hiring a Senior Machine Learning Engineer focused on MLOps to build and operate infrastructure for AI-powered experiences in CAD and BIM. You will automate model testing, deployment, monitoring, and integrate
Senior Product Manager, AI/ML Platform
Toronto, CAN
Autodesk seeks a Senior Product Manager for its Machine Learning Platform (AMP) to define and execute the roadmap for accelerating ML workflows. You will partner with ML engineers and data scientists to improve experimen
Software Architect, AI/ML
Vancouver, CAN
Autodesk seeks a Software Architect for AI/ML to design and build scalable cloud-native services and agentic AI workflows. You will own the GenAI/ML architecture for production systems, define model strategy, and set tec
Principal Platform Product Owner
Montreal, CAN
Research Lead / Principal Scientist & Manager Post-Training · Alignment · Reinforcement Learning Autodesk AI Lab: Toronto · Remote (CA)
Montreal, CAN
Senior Digital Growth Product Manager
Montreal, CAN
Software Architect, AI/ML
Montreal, CAN
Senior Program Manager, GTM PMO
Vancouver, CAN
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, MLOps West Coast
Vancouver, CAN
Senior Product Manager, AI/ML Platform
Toronto, CAN
Software Architect, AI/ML
Vancouver, CAN