Sr Manager Software Engineering

4026 Sabre Travel Technologies; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Sabre Travel Technologies in Bengaluru seeks an Engineering Leader to drive cross-functional teams across applications, platform, systems, and data. You will own end-to-end delivery, align engineering with product strategy, and foster a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.

The role requires 12+ years in software engineering with 3–4+ years in leadership, a strong cloud-native background, and hands-on experience in delivering enterprise-grade systems using Java or similar

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience leading multi-disciplinary engineering teams across product, architecture, and delivery.
• Ability to translate business objectives into clear engineering execution plans and roadmaps.
• Hands-on design and delivery of enterprise-grade, cloud-native applications using modern DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional engineering teams (application, platform, systems, quality, and database engineers).
• Own end-to-end delivery of engineering initiatives with predictable execution and high quality.
• Balance speed, quality, reliability, and cost across cloud-native platforms and applications.
• Align engineering work with product strategy, architectural direction, and business priorities.
• Directly manage and develop senior and lead engineers across multiple disciplines.
• Promote diversity, inclusion, and psychological safety within teams.
• Provide coaching, feedback, performance management, and career development guidance.

Skills

Leadership & Management

Stakeholder & Delivery Management

Technical Background

Ownership mindset

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science

Master’s preferred

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

Job description

Powering the agentic revolution in travel. Sabre is an AI‑native technology leader, backed by one of the world’s largest travel data clouds. Built on an open, modular, cloud‑native architecture, Sabre serves as the backbone for both established leaders and bold, new disruptors, guiding them to the next age of travel retailing through intelligent, connected, and personalized experiences. With AI at its core and operating at unparalleled scale, Sabre transforms insights into innovation, empowering airlines, hoteliers, agencies and other partners to retail, distribute and fulfill travel worldwide.

Responsibilities

Engineering Leadership & Delivery

• Lead and manage cross‑functional engineering teams (application, platform, systems, quality, and database engineers).
• Own end‑to‑end delivery of engineering initiatives, ensuring predictable execution and high quality.
• Balance speed, quality, reliability, and cost across cloud‑native platforms and applications.
• Align engineering work with product strategy, architectural direction, and business priorities.

People Management & Team Development

• Directly manage and develop senior and lead engineers across multiple disciplines.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Provide coaching, feedback, performance management, and career development guidance.
• Support hiring, onboarding, and team scaling efforts.
• Promote diversity, inclusion, and psychological safety within teams.

Stakeholder & Communication

• Act as the primary engineering point of contact for Product Management, Architecture, SRE, Security, and Business stakeholders.
• Translate business goals into clear engineering plans and execution strategies.
• Communicate effectively with technical and non‑technical audiences, including leadership updates and risk discussions.
• Proactively manage expectations, dependencies, and cross‑team coordination.

Technical Oversight & Governance

• Provide technical leadership and guidance without micromanaging implementation.
• Ensure strong engineering practices across cloud‑native application development, platform and systems engineering, CI/CD and automation, quality engineering and testing, and database and data platform operations.
• Drive architecture reviews, technical decision forums, and standards adoption.
• Ensure systems meet expectations for security, scalability, reliability, and compliance.

Operational Excellence

• Own operational readiness, including incident response, root cause analysis, and remediation tracking.
• Partner with teams to reduce technical debt and operational toil.
• Ensure documentation, runbooks, and operational processes are in place.
• Drive cost‑aware engineering and cloud spend accountability.

Required Skills

• Leadership & Management: Proven experience leading multi-disciplinary engineering teams, coaching, performance management, career development, and hiring.
• Stakeholder & Delivery Management: Strong experience managing product, architecture, and business stakeholders, and translating business objectives into clear engineering execution plans.
• Technical Background & Hands‑On Experience: Experience designing and building enterprise‑grade applications using Java or another major programming language; building microservices‑based architectures; working with SQL and NoSQL databases; familiarity with cloud‑native design, CI/CD pipelines, and modern DevOps practices; experience with Google Cloud Platform or equivalent public cloud environments.
• Ownership mindset with accountability for outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field (Master’s preferred).
• 12+ years of total industry experience in software engineering or related technical roles.
• 3–4+ years of experience in an engineering leadership role.
• Experience leading cloud‑native, production‑scale systems.

Equal Employment Opportunity: Sabre is an equal employment opportunity employer and is committed to providing employment opportunities to minorities, females, veterans, and disabled individuals. EEO is the law.

Reasonable Accommodation: Sabre is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. Applicants requiring accommodation can contact [e-mail]. Determinations on requests are made on a case‑by‑case basis.