# Principal Software Engineer SD-WAN

**Company**: Hewlett Packard Enterprise
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $155,500 - $315,000 per year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will serve as the technical leader and chief architect for our next-generation secure SD-WAN solutions.

This is a hands-on, visionary role where you will define and drive the technical strategy for highly secure, scalable, and high-performance networking products.

You will address complex challenges in secure connectivity, advanced cryptography, and large-scale packet processing, directly shaping the future of our SD-WAN portfolio.

**Responsibilities**

- Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of secure SD-WAN products, including site-to-site and remote access solutions for enterprise environments.

- Drive performance optimization initiatives, leveraging technologies such as DPDK, VPP, eBPF technology, and hardware crypto accelerators to ensure robust throughput and reliability.

- Provide hands-on technical leadership and mentorship to senior engineers, fostering a culture of excellence in code quality, design, and best practices.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (product management, hardware, QA) to translate business requirements into innovative technical solutions.

- Research, evaluate, and integrate emerging security technologies, including quantum-safe cryptography, to future-proof products against evolving threats.

- Troubleshoot and resolve complex networking and security issues, ensuring the highest standards of product integrity and customer trust.

- Work with external penetration testing companies and manage the secure development lifecycle of products through penetration testing.

- Proactive in analyzing CVEs and security vulnerabilities, advising product development teams on remediation to ensure products deliver high levels of security and customer confidence.

- Handle customer escalations related to security issues and perform threat analysis.

**Qualifications**

- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong emphasis on secure networking, embedded systems, and Linux kernel development.

- Deep expertise in IPSec/VPN technologies, including IKEv2 protocol, tunnel modes, and advanced troubleshooting.

- 5+ years high-performance networking frameworks (DPDK, VPP, eBPF technology), security protocols (IPSec, TLS, SSL), and cryptographic libraries and accelerators (OpenSSL, AES, RSA, ECC, Intel QAT, AES-NI).

- Developed solutions using open-source networking and security tools like StrongSwan, Libreswan, OpenVPN, or WireGuard.

- Experience with FIPS 140-2/3 validation and Common Criteria certification for security products.

- Extensive experience with hardware offloading (Intel QAT, AES-NI) for cryptographic operations.

- Advanced proficiency in C/C++ and multithreaded, system-level programming.

- Proven track record of architecting, leading, and delivering large-scale, secure networking products.

- Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.

- Experience working on NextGen Firewalls, Secure Web Gateways, IDS/IPS, and Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) is a plus.

**Benefits**

- Comprehensive suite of benefits that supports physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.

- Investment in career development and growth.

- Unconditional inclusion and flexible work arrangements.

**Salary**

The expected salary/wage range for this position is $155,500 - $315,000 per year.

## Skills

### Required
- C/C++
- multithreaded programming
- system-level programming
- IPSec/VPN
- IKEv2 protocol
- DPDK
- VPP
- eBPF technology
- OpenSSL
- AES
- RSA
- ECC
- Intel QAT
- AES-NI
- StrongSwan
- Libreswan
- OpenVPN
- WireGuard
- FIPS 140-2/3 validation
- Common Criteria certification

### Nice to have
- quantum-safe cryptography
- next-generation security protocols
- SD-WAN product development

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