# Principal Software Engineer - Solution Engineering – Customer Solution Validation

**Company**: Hewlett Packard Enterprise
**Location**: Bengaluru, Karnātaka
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join our Solution Engineering – Customer Solution Validation team. You will primarily work from an HPE office in Bengaluru, India.

**Job Description:**

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be responsible for solution validation and customer engagement, automation and quality engineering, system-level testing and debugging, and technical leadership.

**Solution Validation & Customer Engagement**

- Understand customer deployments, business requirements, architectures, and large-scale operational environments to develop comprehensive validation strategies.

- Lead validation efforts for customer solutions and complex networking deployments.

- Collaborate with customers, field engineers, solution architects, sales engineers, and services teams to validate real-world networking solutions and operational readiness.

**Automation & Quality Engineering**

- Contribute to and help drive automation strategy across products, programs, and engineering teams.

- Architect, develop, and evolve scalable automation frameworks supporting functional, integration, system, resiliency, scale, performance, and solution validation.

**System-Level Testing & Debugging**

- Validate distributed, multi-component software and networking platforms at scale.

- Utilize logs, metrics, traces, telemetry, observability platforms, and diagnostic frameworks to troubleshoot complex failures.

**Technical Leadership**

- Provide technical leadership for significant project and program initiatives.

- Serve as a recognized internal authority for solution validation, automation, and quality engineering.

**Required Qualifications**

- Expert-level programming expertise in Python, Go, or C++.

- Extensive experience designing and building automation platforms, frameworks, and quality engineering ecosystems.

- Strong understanding of Linux/UNIX operating systems, networking, processes, memory management, and system internals.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- 12+ years of industry experience.

- Advanced networking expertise in Layer 2, Layer 3, TCP/IP, Routing, MPLS, EVPN, and data center technologies.

- Experience with network operating systems, cloud infrastructure, observability platforms, and distributed architectures.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Go
- C++
- Linux
- UNIX
- networking
- automation
- quality engineering

### Nice to have
- Layer 2
- Layer 3
- TCP/IP
- Routing
- MPLS
- EVPN
- data center technologies
- network operating systems
- cloud infrastructure
- observability platforms
- distributed architectures

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