Director, Software Engineering

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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. 

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.

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

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!

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