Senior Engineering Manager for Infrastructure

Job Description

About the Role: Our users are building some of the most amazing construction projects around the world, and our mobile & web apps are critical tools in their workflows. Infrastructure at our new Site Construction organization builds and maintains the cloud platform our core systems run on every day to enable our customers to do more and do it quickly. You will be a part of the team at Autodesk ACS organization working on the new product launch that unifies the web and mobile user experiences for our PlanGrid and Bim360 product lines to give our customers the best tools to enable them to work more efficiently and collaboratively. Our core functionalities of field collaboration, construction records, lifecycles, admin and users, and project management teams depend on a common Infrastructure to build and deliver products quickly to delight our customers. You are excited to build and drive the team that will make it possible for engineering to triple in size in distributed engineering sites. You are an engineer whisperer. You love people, puns, and pugs, and we are excited to have you on our team! Our infrastructure is going international in 2019 and we are looking for managers to help push the project over the finish line. Our team will work on a variety of projects from infrastructure testing in kubernetes and terraform to service mesh and chaos/resilience engineering. Everything is on the table as we push towards a multi-region architecture that supports heavy data segmentation.

Responsibilities:

• Manage multiple teams in Infrastructure, each with strong technical engineering manager that focuses on a specific set of responsibilities to complete the Infrastructure platform required to allow our engineering teams to build and deploy quickly
• Collaborate with Autodesk core Infrastructure organization to define and shape requirements, contribute to the corporate engineering community so other Autodesk product development teams can leverage and reuse our framework and toos
• Have a heavy focus on people, planning and architecture
• Work closely with our systems architect to design and implement core offerings which can be leveraged by product teams
• Work with our engineering teams to build systems level tools for a service oriented architecture using microservices that scale
• Review key architectural changes across the organization and participate heavily in the proposal process
• Set and manage KPIs/SLOs/SLIs
• Work across the org to address and predict performance bottlenecks
• Work closely with project managers to set high level goals and produce quarterly/yearly plans
• Have a passion to build resilient systems that serve millions of users with high level of quality and observability

About You:

• Management experience, managing remote team experience is a plus
• Ability to go 10 rounds with systems architects and emerging leaders
• A technical background working in medium to large systems; we would love extended experience in Python systems but welcome Java, Go, C++, etc.
• A love of running mission critical systems: our team makes changes that affect the whole kit & caboodle
• Patience and understanding of how company size affects the strategy of building systems and tooling
• Experience working in and/or prepping for global roll out OR an intense desire to learn on the job
• A strong sense of ownership: You strive for deep understanding, build the appropriate solution to get the job done, and iterate quickly to deliver high impact results.
• A team mentality: You recognize that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, appreciate collaboration, and play a key role to make the company win.

Perks

• Located in San Francisco’s Mission District just one block from BART, among local shops, bars, and restaurants
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for full-time employees and dependents
• 401k + Company matching
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• $500 annual wellness reimbursement
• Volunteering on company time + employee donation matching
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Dog-friendly office
• Catered lunches 3x/week
• We provide paid parental leave for both parents
• Construction site tours of the biggest projects in San Francisco using PlanGrid

PlanGrid, an Autodesk company, builds simple, beautiful software that construction teams love to use. As part of Autodesk Construction Solutions (ACS), whose mission is to seamlessly connect the office, trailer and the field across the entire construction project lifecycle, PlanGrid’s mobile-first solutions empower general contractors, subcontractors, owners and architects to provide fast, accurate information to the field. With unparalleled adoption by field workers, PlanGrid is used on projects as the single source of truth for all construction data — including drawings, photos, and other critical documents. As a result, critical workflows are streamlined, efficiency is improved and field teams can take on more work and get more done. PlanGrid’s software and other Autodesk Construction Solutions products enable a complete data set to move seamlessly through each phase of a building’s lifecycle — from design and preconstruction to construction, turnover, and operations. PlanGrid is used on more 1.5 million construction projects in 100+ countries. Join us as PlanGrid and ACS advance Autodesk’s leadership in construction. As part of GDPR compliance procedures, we have posted our Recruiting Privacy Notice on our website. Please also note that the advertised position is an opportunity with Autodesk, Inc. (https://www.autodesk.com/), as Autodesk recently acquired PlanGrid. Processing of your personal information as part of the job application process, and as part of Autodesk employment should a candidate be hired, will be handled by Autodesk pursuant to Autodesk’s Candidate Privacy Statement, available at: https://damassets.autodesk.net/content/dam/autodesk/www/content/careers/autodesk_candidate_privacy_statement.pdf. Apply for this job