Career Area:
Technology, Digital and Data
Job Description:
Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here – we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

Role Overview
The Senior Engineering Manager will lead Non-Functional Quality Engineering (NFR) across digital platforms, with primary accountability for Performance Engineering, scalability, reliability, and resilience.
This is a horizontal enterprise leadership role responsible for ensuring that performance and reliability are designed into systems, validated early, and sustained in production at scale.
The role partners closely with Architecture, Engineering, SRE, and QE delivery leaders to establish a performance-first engineering culture,



drive NFR governance, and enable data-driven release and architecture decisions.
Over time, this role is expected to expand into broader Quality Engineering leadership, contributing to enterprise-wide quality strategy.
Key Responsibilities
Enterprise Non-Functional Quality Leadership
- Own and define the Non-Functional Quality (NFR) strategy and operating model
- Establish governance for performance, scalability, reliability, and resilience
- Define NFR intake, validation, and release readiness criteria
- Drive performance-first engineering culture
Performance Engineering Strategy & Accountability
- Own enterprise-wide performance engineering capability
- Define lifecycle: workload modeling, test strategy, certification, production validation
- Establish shift-left performance in CI/CD
- Define performance budgets and certification models
- Drive production-informed workload models

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📌 Senior Engineering Manager – Performance Engineering (Bengaluru)
🏢 Caterpillar
📍 Bengaluru