Software Engineering Manager, Global Developer Relations
Role Overview
Autodesk seeks an experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead and transform its global Developer Relations organization.
Leads engineering teams responsible for developer support, onboarding, training, and enablement across cloud and engineering platforms.
The mission is to modernize developer experience using AI, automation, and intelligent self-service; the role owns technical strategy, team development, and execution.
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Position overview
Autodesk seeks an experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead and transform its global Developer Relations organization.
Leads engineering teams responsible for developer support, onboarding, training, and enablement across cloud and engineering platforms.
The mission is to modernize developer experience using AI, automation, and intelligent self-service; the role owns technical strategy, team development, and execution.
Engineering leadership
- Lead, develop, and grow high-performing engineering teams across multiple locations.
- Set strategy and roadmap for Developer Relations, support, onboarding, training, and developer productivity.
- Build an engineering culture centered on innovation, ownership, quality, and continuous improvement.
- Partner with engineering leaders to identify opportunities and deliver solutions.
AI and automation
- Lead design and delivery of production-grade AI agents and intelligent automation.
- Use AI for technical support, engineering troubleshooting, repetitive task automation, and developer self-service.
- Integrate AI with internal developer tools, documentation, APIs, CI/CD, observability platforms, and support systems.
- Ensure solutions are scalable, reliable, secure, observable, and governed; measure productivity and operational efficiency improvements.
Developer experience and platforms
- Improve support through intelligent troubleshooting and automated issue resolution.
- Modernize onboarding and training with personalized AI-powered experiences and improve access to engineering documentation and self-service resources.
- Build scalable tools and platforms that reduce friction and improve developer efficiency.
- Drive continuous improvement across cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and developer workflows.
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.
- Production-grade AI/ML, LLM, or agentic AI design, development, and deployment experience.
- Knowledge 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.
- Background in software architecture, distributed systems, cloud computing, and platform engineering.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, databases, networking, and API management such as GCP Apigee; experience with CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native applications.
- Ability to define strategy, drive execution, influence senior leaders, lead distributed teams, hire talent, and develop engineering leaders.
- Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
Salary transparency
- For Canada-based roles, the stated starting base salary range is CAD 140,000 to CAD 205,700; offers depend on experience and geographic location and may exceed the range.
- Compensation may include annual cash bonuses, sales commissions where applicable, stock grants, and benefits.
Onboarding
- The role may require in-person onboarding and/or in-person identity verification.
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