Software Engineering Manager, Global Developer Relations

Position overview

Engineering leadership

• Lead, develop, and grow engineering teams across multiple locations; build a culture of innovation, ownership, quality, and continuous improvement.
• Define strategy and roadmaps for Developer Relations, support, onboarding, training, and developer productivity.
• Partner with Autodesk engineering leaders to identify opportunities and deliver solutions.

AI, automation, and developer experience

• Design and deliver production-grade AI agents and intelligent automation for technical support, troubleshooting, repetitive tasks, and developer self-service.
• Integrate AI with internal developer tools, documentation, APIs, CI/CD pipelines, observability platforms, and support systems; ensure solutions are scalable, reliable, secure, observable, and governed.
• Improve developer support, onboarding, training, engineering knowledge access, self-service resources, and developer workflows.
• Build scalable tools and platforms and improve cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and observability; measure productivity and operational efficiency.

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 technical leadership.
• Experience designing, building, and deploying production-grade AI/ML, LLM, or agentic AI solutions.
• Understanding of agentic AI architecture, 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 (GCP Apigee).
• Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native applications.
• Ability to define technical strategy, drive execution, and influence senior engineering leaders.
• Experience leading distributed teams, hiring technical talent, and developing engineering leaders; strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.

Salary transparency

• For Canada-based roles, the stated starting base salary range is CAD 140,000–205,700; the posting does not specify the pay cadence. Offers depend on experience and geographic location and may exceed the range.

Onboarding

• The role may require in-person onboarding and/or in-person identity verification.