Software Engineering Manager, Global Developer Relations

Position overview

Responsibilities

• Lead teams across locations and define strategy and roadmaps for Developer Relations, support, onboarding, training, and developer productivity.
• Build a culture of innovation, ownership, quality, and continuous improvement; partner with Autodesk engineering leaders on solutions.
• Deliver production-grade AI agents and automation; use AI to improve support, troubleshooting, repetitive tasks, and developer self-service.
• Integrate AI with internal tools, documentation, APIs, CI/CD, observability, and support systems; ensure solutions are reliable, secure, observable, scalable, and governed.
• Improve developer support, onboarding, training, knowledge access, and self-service with intelligent and personalized solutions.
• Build scalable tools and improve cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and developer workflows; measure productivity and efficiency gains.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a similar field.
• 10+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading engineering teams and senior-level technical leadership.
• Experience designing, building, and deploying production-grade AI/ML, LLM, or agentic AI solutions.
• Strong understanding of agentic AI architectures, including RAG, tool use, orchestration, evaluation, security, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
• Experience applying AI and automation to developer productivity, technical support, or enterprise workflows.
• Strong background in software architecture, distributed systems, cloud computing, and platform engineering.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, databases, networking, API management (GCP Apigee), CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native applications.
• Ability to set technical strategy, drive execution, and influence senior engineering leaders.
• Experience leading distributed teams, hiring technical talent, and developing engineering leaders.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.

Compensation

• For Canada-based roles, Autodesk expects a starting base salary range of CAD 140,000–205,700; offers depend on experience and geographic location and may exceed the range.
• Compensation may include annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and benefits.

Workplace

• The role may require in-person onboarding and/or in-person identity verification; no general work-location policy is stated.

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