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Perforce Software

Director, Software Engineering

Pune, India
Full-Time

TLDR

Lead the global engineering organization across BlazeMeter and Perfecto, focusing on AI and SDLC transformation while ensuring platform security and talent development.

Perforce is a community of collaborative experts, problem solvers, and possibility seekers who believe work should be both challenging and fun. We are proud to inspire creativity, foster belonging, support collaboration, and encourage wellness. At Perforce, you’ll work with and learn from some of the best and brightest in business. Before you know it, you’ll be in the middle of a rewarding career at a company headed in one direction: upward.      With a global footprint spanning more than 80 countries and including over 75% of the Fortune 100, Perforce Software, Inc. is trusted by the world’s leading brands to deliver solutions for the toughest challenges. The best run DevOps teams in the world choose Perforce.   Responsibilities:
  • Lead the overall planning, development, and deployment of BlazeMeter and Perfecto, driving a unified engineering strategy across both platforms
  • Own and drive AI and SDLC transformation — accelerating adoption of AI-assisted development practices, agentic tooling, and AI-native features across the engineering org
  • Develop and implement an architectural strategy to ensure platform security, scalability, and resilience at global scale
  • Partner closely with cross-functional teams including product management, sales customer success regarding development schedules, backlog, and roadmap
  • Implement engineering best practices to optimize development cycles as well as increase predictability and product quality 
  • Manage resources effectively to resolve customer issues immediately without delaying development or overloading development teams
  • Lead integration and consolidation efforts across acquired products, reducing technical debt while maintaining delivery velocity
  • Hire and develop top engineering talent across India, Israel and US
  • Create a hiring plan that scales the team with the growth of the business
  • Lead the team in a way that promotes failing fast to succeed sooner when generating and testing new concepts  
  • Leverage market intuition and customer feedback to iterate and improve the product
  • Present technology vision and roadmap to a diverse set of corporate audiences including senior leadership, executive committee, and business community
  • Ensure the team is cohesive and aligned towards the same goals
    • Requirements:
  • BS/MS in Engineering or Computer Science
  • 5+ years’ experience in a senior management position and growth with technical and management experience
  • 10+ years of software development and engineering leadership experience in a hyper-growth SaaS or technology company 
  • Demonstrated experience leading AI and SDLC transformation initiatives — including adoption of AI-assisted development  agentic workflows, and AI-native product capabilities 
  • Proven experience managing large, distributed engineering orgs spanning onshore and offshore locations, including India-based teams
  • Experience operating in PE-backed or acquisition-driven environments; ability to integrate acquired engineering teams and consolidate platforms
  • Experience identifying top talent and developing team members
  • History of managing teams by establishing goals, measuring success, and holding team members accountable
  • Demonstrated understanding of the business environment and relevant strategic, developmental, and operational drivers
  • Ability to balance being hands-on with also having a 30,000 feet perspective
  • Ability to work cross-functionally and own the success of the products jointly with other disciplines
  • Ability to work within a dynamic, entrepreneurial, deadline-driven environment
  • Proven track record of managing successful software delivery in a public-facing SaaS web application development environment
  • Extensive experience and leadership in design and developing high performance, scalable and fault-tolerant, multi-tenant enterprise SaaS/Cloud applications
  • Experience with API-first and developer-facing product environments
  • Proven ability to drive the entire software development process from concept, architecture design, development, and QA to deployment of complex web-based and mobile applications
  • Familiarity with performance testing, continuous testing, or mobile testing infrastructure is a strong plus
  • Experience with Agile development methodologies

    • All employees are expected to demonstrate AI fluency appropriate to their role and level, including responsible use of AI tools, sound judgment, and adherence to company AI governance and security policy standards.

    Come work with us! Our team members are valued for their contributions, introduced to new opportunities, and rewarded well. Perforce combines the experience and rewards of a start-up with the security of an established and privately held profitable company.
     
    If you are passionate about the technology that impacts our day-to-day lives and want to work with talented and dedicated people across the globe, apply today!
     
     
     
    Perforce Software
    Perforce Software

    Perforce Software builds enterprise-scale development tools that empower organizations to manage version control, application lifecycles, and agile planning. Serving over 75% of the Fortune 100, our solutions help innovative companies tackle complex digital product challenges with enhanced efficiency and quality.

    Founded
    Founded 1995
    Employees
    500+ employees
    Industry
    Internet Software & Services
    Total raised
    $20M raised
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