In my country, "engineer" is an academic degree and therefore not "validated by the engineering organization" but conferred on you by a university. Having said that, "software engineer" is NOT understood as having any connection to the academic title of "engineer", as it's a job description and you can even be a degreed software engineer simply having just a bachelor's degree in the field anyway.

Could you please give some examples of countries where "software engineer" is a protected title, together with the organizations responsible for conferring it? I think I looked it up in the past but wasn't able to find one. All I was finding was things like civil engineering certification (basically search engine garbage in the case of my search -- the quality of search engine results has really gone down the drain in the past 15 years or so, sadly).