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.