Senior Manager, Software Engineering
HybridBengaluru, Karnataka, India
Job Summary
Own end-to-end software development life cycle for appliance software, ensuring timely, high-quality releases across physical hardware and virtual platforms. Organize team structures, perform capacity planning, and drive hiring for systems, networking, and security developers. Partner with product management, SQA, DevOps, and escalations teams to deliver enterprise-grade networking and security applications. Drive system and code optimizations to maximize data plane throughput during line-rate packet processing with security inspection. Adopt AI technologies across customer-facing SASE features, automated testing, and root cause analysis for complex defects. Manage headcount efficiently while maintaining rigorous code reviews and continuous integration practices.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or a related engineering field, or equivalent practical experience
- 15-20 years of software engineering experience
- 5+ years of direct people management experience leading engineering teams
- Deep technical background in C programming and Linux systems programming
- Proven track record in low-latency data path and/or networking/security applications
- Strong software development experience in one or more domains, including SD-WAN, Routing, WAN Optimization, Firewall, NGFW, IDS/IPS, ZTNA, Web Filtering, Proxy applications (SSL, TCP, DNS), Application Classification, Deep Packet Inspection (DPI), Policy based routing and High Availability
- Proven track record of managing complex software projects in a high-velocity environment
- Familiarity with leveraging AI technologies to drive both customer-facing features in networking products/services and engineering productivity
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with SD-WAN, Secure Service Edge (SSE), Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), Next Generation Firewall (NGFW), CASB, Secure Routing, Unified Endpoint Client and AI-Native network operations capabilities
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