Sr Manager, Software Engineering

Overview

The Senior Manager, Software Engineering leads engineering teams across a complex product and platform area, ensuring predictable, high-quality delivery at portfolio scale while building talent pipelines, operating mechanisms, and architectural governance. This role reports to the Director, Software Engineering and acts through Engineering Managers, Tech Leads, and Staff Engineers.

What you'll do

• Lead portfolio-level delivery across multiple teams, owning roadmap clarity, dependency mapping, risk management, and re-scoping decisions.
• Build and develop engineering teams by coaching Engineers and Tech Leads, running calibrated leveling, promotion committees, and succession planning, and maintaining a high-accountability, psychologically safe culture.
• Co-own technical strategy and architecture governance with Staff Engineers, defining multi-quarter platform direction, introducing ADRs, design reviews, and tech radar mechanisms, and reducing technical debt at scale.
• Partner with Product and Design leadership to co-own planning, shape roadmaps, manage trade-offs, and translate business priorities into engineering strategies communicated in customer and revenue terms.
• Drive operational excellence by establishing and monitoring SLOs, incident response health, on-call load, MTTR trends, and postmortem quality.
• Design and evolve team topology by defining team structures, interfaces, and operating cadences including quarterly planning, tech councils, and review forums.
• Champion AI and automation adoption across engineering teams by identifying where AI agents, developer tooling, and process automation unlock leverage and reduce toil.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience in a senior engineering leadership role.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience with C# and .Net.
• At least 4 years managing engineering teams.
• Demonstrated experience leading managers or senior ICs across multiple teams or platform areas.
• Proven track record of portfolio-level delivery ownership, including roadmap management, dependency resolution, and cross-team risk mitigation in complex product environments.
• Technical credibility in software engineering, with sufficient depth to partner effectively with Engineers on architectural direction, platform decisions, and build vs. buy trade-offs.
• Demonstrated experience building engineering leaders, coaching Tech Leads and Engineers, running leveling calibration processes, and developing succession pipelines.
• Experience driving cross-functional alignment with Product, Design, QA, and business stakeholders.
• Track record of earning stakeholder trust through consistent, transparent communication and reliable delivery.
• Familiarity with engineering excellence practices, Clean Code, DORA metrics, SLOs, incident management, developer experience, and continuous improvement mechanisms at scale.

Nice to have

• Remain an active hands-on technologist, comfortable writing code, leading proof-of-concept work, and getting into the technical weeds when it matters.
• Be a relentless technical mentor known for leading engineers beyond, setting a high bar for technical craft, and holding people accountable to continuous growth.
• Experience designing team topology and organizational structure, including stream-aligned, platform, and enabling team models, in a scaled engineering organization.
• Track record of driving at least one org-wide engineering improvement such as a hiring loop overhaul, leveling calibration program, incident management system, or developer platform uplift.
• Exposure to AI and automation-heavy engineering environments with practical experience governing and scaling AI agent usage and data pipelines.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
• Work mode: On-site.