Senior Manager, Engineering
Barracuda Networks
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Posted on Feb 18, 2026
Job ID: 26-483
Come Join Our Passionate Team! At Barracuda, we make the world a safer place. We believe every business deserves access to cloud-enabled, enterprise-grade security solutions that are easy to buy, deploy, and use. We protect email, networks, data, and applications with innovative solutions that grow and adapt with our customers’ journey. More than 200,000 organizations worldwide trust Barracuda to protect them — in ways they may not even know they are at risk — so they can focus on taking their business to the next level.
We know a diverse workforce adds to our collective value and strength as an organization. Barracuda Networks is proud to be an employer that complies with all applicable national, state, and local laws pertaining to nondiscrimination and equal opportunity regardless of race, gender, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, or disability.
Envision yourself at Barracuda
We are seeking a passionate, experienced Senior Manager, Engineering to join our Application Security organization. We hire strong, collaborative leaders to inspire and enable teams to be successful delivering quality software.
The right candidate should have significant experience leading large software engineering teams in a dynamic hybrid work environment. You’ll be managing the day-to-day operations of a software team responsible for architecting, developing, testing, deploying, and scaling application security products in the cybersecurity space.
Our products are built using modern technologies and languages and deploy to AWS or Azure via a mature CI/CD pipeline. Performance, monitoring and observability are first class citizens in our ecosystem. Some products are on their journey ‘to the public cloud’ and successful management of a product roadmap, and an architectural roadmap that includes addressing technical debt, is key.
Tech Stack:
- Domain: Application Security, Web Application firewalls
- Product technologies like high performance server architecture(s) and optimization, deep packet inspection
- Hands-on experience with high-speed and scalable multi-threaded packet processing frameworks is preferred (DPDK, P4 or similar)
- Deep knowledge of L4-L7 protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP/2, TLS 1.3), experience with web security concepts is a plus
- High Level Programming Languages like C, C++
- Identity and Directory Management like LDAP, MS AD, Okta, Auth0
- Automation frameworks like Mabl, Selenium is a plus
- Data Storages like AWS S3, ElasticSearch, AWS Dynamo, Blobs
What you will be working on:
- Provide people management for a cross-functional product development team.
- People leadership, performance management, coaching, nurturing professional growth of engineers
- Project management, planning, execution, risk and dependency management, schedule adherence
- Process definition and adherence, ensuring quality and timely delivery of features
- Innovative mindset, providing leadership to nurture innovative ideas and create product differentiators
- Out of box thinker, looking at optimizing process and value delivery all the time
- Fast technology adopter, Gen AI and AI centric software development proponent
- Metrics oriented mindset, proactive in measuring the people and project deliverables and endeavor to improve
- Work with CSM (Customer Success Management) team to handle high-touch customers, manage customer expectations and ensure quality of deliverables.
- Partner with product managers to outline roadmaps and communicate updates on progress.
- Participate in software architectural discussions, influencing decisions, and collaborating with peers to maintain consistency across the organization.
- Work with engineers to implement features, debug issues/escalations, prioritize technical debt.
- Cloud & Hybrid Strategy: Manage the deployment of datapath services across diverse environments, including on-prem clusters, Kubernetes (K8s), and public clouds like AWS and Azure.
- Incident Response & Root Cause Analysis: Lead the troubleshooting of complex datapath failures or performance bottlenecks, providing detailed technical guidance to engineering teams.
- Ensure delivered solutions adhere to the software architecture strategy coding standards, security guidelines, and established organizational policies and procedures.
- Identify and champion process and productivity improvement strategies for the team(s).
What you bring to the role:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field. Master's degree preferred.
- 15+ years of overall experience and atleast 3+ years of technical leadership experience.
- Proven experience in managing and leading a full-stack team containing Developers, SDETs and DevOps in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Experience with daily operations associated with web-hosted/API-based applications running in datacenters (or) public cloud requiring 24/7 availability, and operating at a large data scale (Billions of data points being processed, Millions of concurrent users interacting with the product)
- Experience managing an application containing both modern aspects, as well as legacy systems – and the ability to manage an architectural roadmap to modernize and manage technical debt appropriately.
- Proficiency in Cyber Security (Application Security/ Network Security / Email / Database Management etc.,).
- In-depth knowledge of software development methodologies, tools, and best practices.
- Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
- Strong leadership abilities, with a track record of motivating and inspiring teams to achieve outstanding results.
What you will get from us:
A team where you can voice your opinion, make an impact, and where you and your experience are valued. Internal mobility – there are opportunities for cross training and the ability to attain your next career step within Barracuda, in addition to equity, in the form of non-qualifying options.