Vice President, Engineering

Perforce Software

Vice President of Engineering leading global engineering across BlazeMeter and Perfecto. Seeking a candidate experienced in AI and SaaS environments with strong leadership skills.

Posted 5/19/2026full-timeBurlington • Massachusetts • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $259,000 - $330,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudSDLC

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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 Israel, US and India.
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

What you’ll need

BS/MS in Engineering or Computer Science.
Working leadership experience with global teams (ideally Israel, Europe, India and the United States).
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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

medical
dental
vision
retirement benefits
life insurance
wellness programs
total time off
other employee perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

AI-assisted developmentSDLC transformationsoftware developmentengineering leadershipscalable applicationsfault-tolerant systemsAPI-first environmentsAgile development methodologiesperformance testingmobile testing infrastructure

Soft Skills

leadershipcross-functional collaborationteam developmentgoal settingaccountabilitystrategic thinkingdynamic environment adaptabilitycustomer feedback integrationresource managementcohesive team alignment

Certifications

BS in EngineeringMS in Computer Science