Software Engineering Manager, Denial of Service Security SRE

Apigee
Apigee

Software Engineering, Other Engineering

Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Posted on Sep 22, 2026
Application Instructions: In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of technical experience in network protocols (TCP/IP, BGP, DNS, HTTP/S), routing, load balancing, or distributed traffic serving architectures.
  • 3 years of experience in managing technical teams.
  • 3 years of experience managing operational incident response and participating in or supervising on-call rotations.
  • Experience programming in one of the following languages: C, C++, Java, Python, or Go.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
  • 5 years of engineering management experience, with a proven track record of managing executive individual contributors or managing other managers.
  • Experience shifting operational engineering teams from reactive interrupt-driven workflows to automated, intelligence-driven defense models.
  • Demonstrated executive presence and ability to communicate complex, high-stakes security incidents calmly and decisively to engineering VPs, Directors, and enterprise Cloud customers.
  • Extensive background in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) incident response, malware analysis/reverse engineering, botnet tracking, WAF administration, or threat intelligence pipelines.