Senior Software Engineering Manager, Product Security

Overview

Build and lead a high-performing development team within HPE's Product Security Office responsible for designing, developing, testing, deploying and operating secure, reliable and scalable software that enables product teams to identify, manage and reduce security risk.

What you'll do

• Hire, onboard, lead and develop a team of individual-contributor software and security engineers, setting clear expectations, goals, development plans and accountability for results.
• Create an inclusive, high-trust engineering culture grounded in ownership, collaboration, technical excellence, continuous learning and constructive challenge.
• Provide regular coaching, feedback, career development and performance support while building succession strength and expanding the team's technical capabilities.
• Match work to skills and development needs, delegate meaningful ownership, and ensure senior engineers lead design and implementation within clear decision boundaries.
• Plan team capacity, workload and skill coverage; identify resourcing risks and recommend hiring, development or partner strategies.
• Translate Product Security Office priorities and capability roadmaps into clear engineering plans, milestones, ownership and measurable outcomes.
• Lead day-to-day engineering execution, including prioritization, sprint and release planning, dependency management, risk tracking, escalation and delivery reviews.
• Ensure the team builds and operates secure, reliable, maintainable and scalable software, services, automation, APIs, data integrations and product security tooling.
• Establish effective engineering practices for design review, source control, testing, CI/CD, secure development, release management, observability, incident response and operational support.
• Balance new capability development with operational reliability, technical debt reduction, defect remediation, platform modernization and lifecycle maintenance.
• Define and monitor meaningful measures for delivery predictability, quality, reliability, security, adoption and engineering effectiveness.
• Partner with product and capability owners to understand user needs, clarify requirements, prioritize engineering investments and sequence delivery across the Product Security Office capability portfolio.
• Guide development of reusable product security platforms and services that improve vulnerability management, security assessment, secure development, reporting and workflow automation.
• Promote automation and responsible use of AI-assisted engineering where they improve speed, consistency, coverage or user experience while preserving validation, traceability, security and human accountability.
• Ensure security, privacy, data-handling, resilience and compliance considerations are incorporated into solution design and delivery.
• Use stakeholder feedback, operational data and engineering insights to identify opportunities for simplification, reuse, integration and continuous improvement.
• Build strong working relationships across Product Security, product engineering, security research, vulnerability response, infrastructure, architecture and enterprise technology teams.
• Align stakeholders on priorities, scope, tradeoffs, dependencies and delivery commitments, escalating material risks with clear options and recommendations.
• Provide transparent capacity, dependency and engineering investment tradeoffs across the PSO portfolio, helping leadership determine when capabilities should be built, integrated, scaled, modernized, consolidated or retired.
• Coordinate effectively with globally distributed teams and partners while establishing clear ownership, handoffs, documentation and operating rhythms.
• Communicate engineering progress, risks, decisions and outcomes clearly to technical teams, product leaders and senior stakeholders.
• Represent the team in planning, architecture, operational and leadership forums while ensuring individual contributors retain appropriate technical visibility and ownership.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, software engineering, cybersecurity, information systems or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Typically 10 or more years of relevant software engineering, security engineering or technology experience.
• 3+ years of people management experience directly managing software engineers.
• Proven experience leading teams that design, build, release and operate enterprise software, platforms, services, automation or developer-facing capabilities.
• Demonstrated ability to manage individual contributors, develop talent, set clear priorities, address performance issues and create accountability for delivery and engineering quality.
• Experience establishing or improving engineering practices across software design, code review, testing, CI/CD, secure development, release management, observability and operational support.
• Experience managing roadmaps, delivery plans, dependencies, technical debt, operational risk and competing stakeholder priorities in a complex or matrixed organization.
• Strong technical understanding of modern software architecture, APIs, cloud environments, containers, data platforms, source control, CI/CD and secure software development practices.
• Strong communication, facilitation and stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to explain technical risks and tradeoffs to non-technical audiences.

Nice to have

• Experience leading globally distributed engineering teams and collaborating across time zones, cultures and organizational boundaries.
• Experience with Python, Java, JavaScript or TypeScript, React, Node.js, SQL or NoSQL data platforms, REST APIs, Linux, GitHub, Jenkins or GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes or comparable technologies.
• Experience applying AI-assisted development, intelligent automation or agentic methods within secure engineering workflows, including appropriate validation and human oversight.
• Experience improving engineering operating models, building a new team or capability, or scaling a platform from project-based delivery to sustainable operations.
• Working knowledge of common software weaknesses, OWASP guidance, threat modeling, software supply-chain security and secure development lifecycle principles.
• Relevant engineering, cloud, agile or security certifications.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, Karnātaka, India.
• Work mode: Hybrid, with an average of 2 days per week from an HPE office.
• Job level: Manager_2.