Engineering Manager, Data & Services

Job Requisition ID #

26WD96623

Position Overview

We are hiring an Engineering Manager - Data & Services to lead a team of software engineers responsible for building and operating backend services and APIs that support Autodesk's enterprise data and platform capabilities. This role is intended for a people-focused engineering leader with a strong foundation in backend software engineering, APIs, and service-oriented architectures, who can effectively manage delivery, execution, and collaboration across product and engineering partners.

As an Engineering Manager, your primary responsibility is to lead and enable the team-through clear direction, strong execution, and continuous coaching-while staying sufficiently hands-on to guide technical decisions, review designs, and support production operations. This role requires comfort operating in ambiguity, balancing short-term delivery with long-term technical and organizational health. Familiarity with data engineering concepts is beneficial, and the manager should be willing to engage in limited hands-on data or backend work when necessary.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of backend software engineers, fostering strong engineering culture, accountability, and continuous improvement.

• Own people management responsibilities including hiring, onboarding, performance management, career development, and engagement.

• Run day-to-day agile execution for the team, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, capacity planning, delivery tracking, and retrospectives.

• Partner closely with product and program management to translate roadmaps and requirements into clear, prioritized, and executable engineering plans.

• Be accountable for delivery outcomes, quality, and team health-balancing scope, timelines, and technical tradeoffs.

• Provide technical leadership for backend services and APIs, guiding architecture, reviewing designs and code, and ensuring sound engineering decisions.

• Ensure the team builds and operates scalable, reliable backend systems, including microservices, serverless components, and event-driven workflows.

• Drive strong production ownership practices, including observability, incident response, root-cause analysis, and durable remediation.

• Manage cross-team dependencies and collaborate with partner teams to deliver aligned outcomes.

• Align team execution with broader organizational goals, engineering standards, and best practices.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong emphasis on backend systems and APIs.

• 3+ years of people management experience, managing teams of software engineers.

• Solid technical background in backend software engineering, including API and service development (e.g., Python or equivalent backend languages).

• Hands-on experience designing and operating services on AWS or comparable cloud platforms.

• Good understanding of distributed systems, including asynchronous processing, messaging, and fault tolerance.

• Experience running agile delivery processes, including sprint planning, capacity management, and backlog prioritization.

• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with product, program, and cross-functional stakeholders.

• Experience managing teams that build platform or shared services consumed by multiple internal teams.

• Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging/streaming platforms (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis, or equivalents).

• Familiarity with data engineering concepts or platforms (e.g., data pipelines, data warehouses such as Snowflake).

• Willingness and ability to engage in hands-on technical or data work when needed.

• Experience operating in large, distributed organizations with complex stakeholder and dependency landscapes.