Principal Software Engineering Manager
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