Attempts of Russian authorities to find proper place for national economy in global market and to diversify traditional patterns of production demand elaboration and implantation of software products as elements of digital economy with a strategic aim to create Russian innovative technologies, resources and managerial solutions. However, there are still numerous unresolved problems in this area, which restrain establishment of software engineering as an instrument for maintainability of Russia’s competitiveness in global transparent digital economy. The key problem for our research is to elaborate reasons for absence of scientific qualification “software engineering”, which is meant to provide training for specialists of the highest academic and research qualification.