Software Development Manager, Flow Platform – Job Requisition ID #26WD97958 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. Position Overview 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 critical leadership role focuses on operational excellence, reliability, and platform readiness at scale. The Manager 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. 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 post‑mortems 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 a 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) #J-18808-Ljbffr