Staff Software Engineer
MistThis role has been designed as ‘’Onsite’ with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE office.
Who We Are:
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. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.
Job Description:
What you'll do:
Architectural Leadership: Lead the design and development of scalable, resilient, and high-performance L2/L3 control plane software.
Feature Ownership: Independently drive feature requests from product management into "carrier-grade" reality, ensuring 99.999% reliability and hitless upgrades.
Protocol Expertise: Implement and optimize complex networking protocols (e.g., DHCP, PPPoE, L2TP, VXLAN) within a distributed system architecture.
System Integrity: Solve highly ambiguous, complex system-level bugs that span the boundary between the control plane, management plane (Netconf/YANG), and the underlying forwarding pipeline.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Hardware/ASIC teams to define software-hardware interfaces and with QA teams to drive automated, scale-focused testing strategies.
Mentorship: Act as a technical beacon for the engineering organization, conducting deep-dive code reviews and mentoring senior and lead engineers.
What you need to bring:
Education: BS/MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
Experience: 10+ years of experience in networking software development (Staff level typically requires a proven track record of shipping major features in products like Junos, IOS-XR, or EOS).
Core Systems Programming: Expert-level C/C++ and Python skills in a multi-threaded, multi-core Linux or FreeBSD environment.
Control Plane Depth: Software development experience in one or more of these: Layer 2 and Layer 3 protocols, multicast (IGMP/MLD), Broadband Edge protocols (DHCP/PPPoE/L2TP), routing protocols, VPN/VXLAN, HTTP redirect, CoS, Firewall.
- Experience in implementation of above protocols/services on Broadcom DNX platforms (J2, J2C, Q2C) is a strong plus.
OS Internals: Deep knowledge of IPC mechanisms, memory management, and high-availability (HA) synchronization in distributed systems.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with P4 or programming network processors (NPUs/ASICs) like Broadcom Jericho/Tomahawk or Juniper Trio.
Experience with modern "Cloud-Native" networking, including containerized network functions (CNFs) and gRPC-based telemetry
Additional Skills:
What We Can Offer You:
Health & Wellbeing
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Personal & Professional Development
We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.
Unconditional Inclusion
We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.
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