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Principal Software Engineering Manager

India, Telangana, Hyderabad💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-03 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead a major Frontier Security Engineering organization, owning delivery, talent, and technical strategy at scale for a multi-team FSE organization spanning several frontier security tracks and a portfolio of strategic customers.

Role type

Principal Software Engineering Manager (Security)

Builds

Repeatable, generalized security engineering operating model ('superhighway') across the org

Domain

Security engineering, cloud, AI

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Technical engineering leadership, team management, executive stakeholder management, customer-facing engineering leadership, hiring and succession planning, defect and governance gap analysis

Preferred skills

Experience in security, cloud, or AI domains

Technologies

C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python

Responsibilities

Own strategy, execution, and outcomes for the FSE organization; Build and lead a team of engineering managers and principal engineers; Partner at the executive level with product leaders and customer CISOs; Drive the operating model's scale from 1:1 customer mapping to a generalized model; Ensure engagement quality and engineering signal (defects, tuning gaps, guardrails, RBAC/governance gaps)

Seniority

Principal, strategy & mentorship

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