Director, Software Engineering

Perforce

Perforce

Software Engineering

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Posted on May 18, 2026
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Position Summary:

Perforce is seeking a Director of Software Engineering in Testing to lead the global engineering org across BlazeMeter and Perfecto, two industry-leading platforms in continuous performance testing and mobile device testing. This is a senior leadership role with responsibility for engineering strategy, execution, team development, and platform evolution across both products.

The ideal candidate has proven experience leading distributed engineering teams in a high-growth SaaS environment, a strong grasp of modern SDLC practices, and a track record of embedding AI into development workflows and product capabilities. They thrive in acquisition-driven organizations, can drive platform consolidation without losing engineering momentum, and bring both technical depth and executive presence.

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.

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