Description
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world.
As a Platform Software Engineer (Networking Systems), you will architect and build the system software behind high-performance ethernet switching networking platforms by owning design decisions end-to-end, optimizing for reliability and performance, and delivering capabilities that run at scale in real-world mission critical deployments.
Responsibilities:
- Drive system design and implementation for platform software across core networking subsystems, including chassis/line-card platform services, Ethernet interfaces, optics, and the underlying system infrastructure that ties hardware and software together.
- Own architecture and end-to-end delivery within JunOS or Junos Evolved - define interfaces between hardware and software and between various software components, evaluate design trade-offs, implement, and integrate across the networking software stack.
- Partner with system and solution test teams to set quality bars and build performance and reliability requirements, feedback to strong test strategy, and shorten debug/triage cycles.
- Work with support teams as the engineering owner – to perform root-cause analysis on production issues, drive fixes to closure, and continually harden the switching platform for best customer experience.
What you need to bring:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or related discipline. Master’s desirable.
- Typically, 4-10 years’ experience.
- Deep experience with low-level systems domain: device drivers, board/system bring-up, and FreeBSD/Linux internals.
- Strong systems debugging skills - able to isolate cross-layer failures (hardware/firmware/OS), and reason about performance, concurrency, and resource bottlenecks.
- AI-first engineering mindset: comfortable using AI-assisted tools (e.g., coding copilots, LLM-based assistants) to accelerate design, implementation, and debugging - while validating outputs, writing tests, and protecting sensitive data.
- Requirement: consistently apply AI-assisted workflows across the system design lifecycle (problem framing → tradeoffs/interfaces → implementation → test/verification → production triage) to improve speed, quality, and reliability.
- Habit of documenting decisions and using lightweight design artifacts (problem statements, tradeoffs, interfaces) to align quickly and iterate with the team.
- Solid networking fundamentals (Ethernet; familiarity with switching concepts is a plus).
- Strong C/C++ engineering: clean API/interface design, OO design, data structures, and comfort with low-level/system debugging tooling.
- Working knowledge of hardware/firmware interfaces and integration points (PCIe, SPI, I2C, FPGA/CPLD) - able to translate datasheets into robust software abstractions and implementation.
- Bonus: prior experience shipping system software for networking products (platforms, routers/switches, or similar).
Benefits:
- Health & Wellbeing: comprehensive suite of benefits that supports physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.
- Personal & Professional Development: investment in your career with programs to help you reach your career goals.
- Unconditional Inclusion: celebration of individual uniqueness and flexibility to manage work and personal needs.