Software Engineering Manager, Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity Jobs; Peoria (IL); On-site; USD 148,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k) savings plan

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)

Career development

Incentive bonus

Job summary

Caterpillar seeks a Software Engineering Manager focused on cybersecurity to strengthen security across an application and product portfolio. This onsite role in Peoria, IL combines engineering leadership with secure-by-design practices, measurable risk reduction, and dependable delivery outcomes.

You will lead a team, own the security roadmap, and translate business needs into prioritized initiatives while embedding security into CI/CD and cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in a related field.
• Strong experience as a Software Engineering Manager or lead.
• Solid security engineering knowledge across applications, APIs and cloud environments.
• Experience translating security policies into engineering controls and measurable improvements.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coach an engineering team, setting goals and performance.
• Own the division’s application security improvement roadmap with central cybersecurity.
• Embed security in the SDLC with threat modeling and secure coding practices.
• Drive continuous improvement in engineering quality and security controls.
• Establish and document security release gates and governance across environments.
• Coordinate audit evidence and remediation with central cybersecurity teams.

Skills

Software Engineering Manager

Security champions

Threat modeling

CI/CD security automation

Cloud security

API security

Vulnerability triage

Security governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science / information systems / cybersecurity, or equivalent practical experience

Tools

OWASP guidance

Static analysis tools

Dynamic analysis tools

Secret scanning

Job description

Join Caterpillar as a Software Engineering Manager focused on cybersecurity, where you’ll strengthen security across a division’s application and product portfolio. This onsite role in Peoria, IL combines engineering leadership with security-by-design practices, measurable risk reduction, and dependable delivery outcomes.

What you’ll do

• Lead, hire, coach, and develop an engineering team, setting clear goals and managing performance while building a network of security champions across delivery teams.
• Own the division’s application security improvement roadmap in partnership with central cybersecurity.
• Turn business needs and enterprise policy into prioritized initiatives, including work plans, schedules, resource estimates, and progress reviews.
• Manage team capacity, budgets, tools, and supplier relationships to support effective engineering delivery.
• Review technical standards and architecture/design conformance, resolve delivery constraints, and drive continuous improvement in engineering quality and service effectiveness.
• Embed security into the software development lifecycle with threat modeling, secure code practices, pull-request review, and security testing.
• Guide secure handling of secrets, cloud configuration, and third-party dependencies.
• Establish and document security release gates using approved enterprise processes.
• Ensure API and endpoint authentication, authorization, and access-control reviews are completed and approved before code progresses through environments.
• Accelerate adoption of shared security tools and preventive controls in CI/CD pipelines, using automation and AI-assisted scanning with appropriate oversight.
• Lead vulnerability triage with security experts: validate findings, remove duplicates, apply a consistent severity rubric such as CVSS, assess business impact, and prioritize high-risk issues.
• Assign remediation owners, agree on timelines, and track items to verified closure.
• Escalate risk through established governance, address systemic root causes, and prioritize shared-platform fixes to prevent recurrence.
• Maintain accurate application, asset, and repository inventories with clear ownership mapping.
• Build trustworthy portfolio dashboards covering scan coverage, validated findings, remediation aging, agreed service-level performance, and risk reduction.
• Run regular security progress reviews and communicate decisions, trade-offs, and support needs to stakeholders.
• Coordinate audit evidence, policy alignment, and remediation with central cybersecurity and application security teams.
• Create a shared home for division security guidance, training, and documentation, and coach teams and suppliers to make secure practices sustainable in day-to-day engineering.

What you bring

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong experience as a Software Engineering Manager or demonstrated lead experience.
• Solid software development, architecture, integration, and testing knowledge, including practical experience applying secure development practices to modern applications, APIs, and cloud environments.
• Broad cybersecurity knowledge and hands-on application security judgment, including threat modeling, authentication and authorization, vulnerability validation, remediation, and automated security controls.
• Experience translating security policies and frameworks into engineering controls, supporting audits, and managing risk-based improvement programs with measurable outcomes.
• Practical knowledge of OWASP guidance and security testing tools, including static and dynamic analysis, dependency and secret scanning, and integrating controls into delivery pipelines.
• Experience building security champions, improving engineering practices, and using reliable metrics to drive adoption and recurring-risk reduction.
• Clear communication and program leadership skills, able to influence across teams and explain technical risk in business terms while balancing security, quality, cost, and delivery speed.
• Experience scaling application security across a complex or global enterprise, including product-centric or Agile delivery and collaboration with central security functions preferred.
• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CSSLP, or GIAC, or a related master’s degree, or comparable advanced expertise demonstrated through practice preferred.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits*
• Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*
• 401(k) savings plans*
• Health Savings Account (HSA)*
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*
• Health Lifestyle Programs*
• Employee Assistance Program*
• Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*
• Career Development*
• Incentive bonus*
• Disability benefits
• Life Insurance
• Parental leave
• Adoption benefits
• Tuition Reimbursement

Compensation: USD 147,760 - 240,110 per year.

Location and details

• Onsite in Peoria, IL (and this position requires the candidate to be in Chicago, IL, Peoria, IL, Denver, CO, or Dallas, TX).
• Up to 20% travel
• Onsite five days a week
• Relocation assistance: not available
• Visa sponsorship: not available
• Employment is conditioned upon successful completion of a drug screen.