Software Development Manager, Platform Engineering

Socket.dev; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 148,000 - 265,000; Full time

Job summary

Autodesk is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead Platform and DevOps engineers within the Cloud Infrastructure Engineering group, focusing on delivering business applications and evolving internal CI/CD platforms. You’ll mentor the team, define roadmaps, and drive reliability, security, and observability across AWS and Kubernetes environments.

The role blends hands-on leadership with technical direction, emphasizing scalable systems, operational excellence, and a culture of continuous

Qualifications

• 3+ years of people leadership experience managing and developing engineers
• 7+ years of engineering experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, platform engineering, or related areas
• Experience delivering and operating business-critical applications in AWS environments

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and support the growth of a high-performing Platform/DevOps engineering team
• Own delivery for one or more business applications, including roadmap execution, release planning, risk management, and operational excellence
• Establish and improve SLOs, SLIs, on-call practices, incident response processes, and postmortem culture
• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Design, Security, and Engineering stakeholders to align priorities and communicate progress clearly
• Operate and evolve Kubernetes/EKS environments across multi-AZ and multi-region architectures
• Drive GitOps and CI/CD best practices using Argo CD, Flux, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy
• Build paved roads, templates, and reusable developer workflows that improve engineering productivity
• Support infrastructure automation and infrastructure-as-code practices using Terraform and AWS CDK
• Promote observability and security practices and optimize cloud cost efficiency

Skills

People leadership

Cloud infrastructure

DevOps

Communication

Stakeholder partnership

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitOps

Argo CD

Flux

Jenkins

CodeBuild

CodeDeploy

AWS CDK

Job description

Job Requisition ID #

25WD94232

Software Development Manager, Platform Engineering

Cloud Infrastructure Engineering | COO GET Engineering

About the Role

We’re growing our Cloud Infrastructure Engineering capability within the COO GET Engineering organization and are looking for an Engineering Manager who balances platform engineering expertise with application delivery leadership.

In this role, you’ll lead a team of Platform and DevOps engineers while partnering closely with Product, Design, Security, and Engineering teams to deliver reliable, scalable, and developer-friendly solutions. Approximately 60% of the role focuses on delivery ownership for business applications, while the remaining 40% focuses on evolving internal CI/CD platforms, observability, and paved-road developer experiences.

This is a hands-on leadership opportunity where you’ll help shape technical direction, mentor engineers, remove blockers, and drive operational excellence across modern cloud infrastructure environments.

We welcome candidates from diverse backgrounds and experiences who are passionate about building inclusive teams, scalable systems, and impactful technology.

What You’ll Do

People & Delivery Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and support the growth of a high-performing Platform/DevOps engineering team
• Foster an inclusive, collaborative, and psychologically safe team culture
• Own delivery for one or more business applications, including roadmap execution, release planning, risk management, and operational excellence
• Establish and improve SLOs, SLIs, on-call practices, incident response processes, and postmortem culture
• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Design, Security, and Engineering stakeholders to align priorities and communicate progress clearly

Platform Engineering & Developer Experience

• Operate and evolve Kubernetes/EKS environments across multi-AZ and multi-region architectures
• Drive GitOps and CI/CD best practices using tools such as Argo CD, Flux, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy
• Build paved roads, templates, and reusable developer workflows that improve engineering productivity and reduce complexity
• Support infrastructure automation and infrastructure-as-code practices using Terraform and AWS CDK

Reliability, Security & Observability

• Improve observability and operational visibility across logs, metrics, tracing, and synthetic monitoring
• Collaborate with Security and Compliance teams to implement secure-by-default infrastructure practices
• Help optimize cloud cost efficiency, scalability, reliability, and performance across AWS and Kubernetes ecosystems
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement, resilience engineering, and operational ownership

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years of people leadership experience managing and developing engineers
• 7+ years of engineering experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, platform engineering, or related areas
• Experience delivering and operating business-critical applications in AWS environments
• Strong experience with AWS services including EKS, EC2, VPC networking, S3, RDS/DynamoDB, Lambda, API Gateway, and CloudWatch
• Experience with Kubernetes operations, Helm, autoscaling, and infrastructure security practices
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows
• Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or AWS CDK
• Programming experience in Python, Java, TypeScript, or Node.js
• Familiarity with SRE practices, including incident management, SLIs/SLOs, and operational excellence
• Strong communication and stakeholder partnership skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building or operating Internal Developer Platforms and self-service engineering workflows
• Familiarity with service meshes, policy engines, secrets management, and platform governance
• Experience supporting multi-region architectures and resilience engineering initiatives
• Knowledge of observability platforms, distributed tracing, and synthetic monitoring strategies
• Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging systems such as Kafka, Kinesis, SNS, or SQS
• Familiarity with SOX, SOC2, compliance frameworks, and FinOps practices

Learn More

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

Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $148,000 and $264,990. 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.

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

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