Principal Systems Engineer – Networking / Security
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:
- Acts as a senior technical expert in the design, development, and enhancement of systems software, including operating systems, compilers, networking, utilities, databases, and Internet-related tools.
- Owns and drives complex technical initiatives end‑to‑end, including architecture design, implementation, validation, and optimization.
- Provides technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across teams through design reviews, code reviews, and best-practice guidance.
- Collaborates with program managers, product management, hardware, platform, and architecture teams to align technical solutions with product and roadmap requirements.
- Drives technical direction to ensure products meet scalability, high availability, reliability, and performance benchmarks across large-scale, distributed environments.
- Leads performance engineering efforts, including system benchmarking, profiling, load testing, tuning, and optimization to meet stringent latency and throughput goals.
- Establishes and promotes best practices for performance regression analysis, capacity planning, and continuous system monitoring across multiple releases.
- Identifies and resolves complex system bottlenecks across networking, security, and data path components.
- Proactively identifies opportunities for system improvement, automation, and technical efficiency.
- Contributes hands-on to testing, automation, and tooling as needed.
What You Need to Bring:
Education and Experience Required
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience required.
- Master’s degree preferred.
- Typically 10 or more years of relevant industry experience in system/software engineering roles.
Knowledge and Skills
- In-depth knowledge of Security and Networking protocols, including IPSEC, NAT, Firewall, L4–L7, DPI, Web Filtering, OSPF, BGP, and STP.
- Experience with Juniper SRX and MX platforms is a plus.
- Strong understanding of security solution deployment models.
- Strong automation and scripting skills using Python or similar languages.
- Proven ability to contribute hands-on to testing and automation efforts.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a structured, data-driven approach.
- Strong communication skills to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse technical audiences.
- Deep expertise in scalable software architectures, distributed systems behavior, and performance optimization techniques.
- Proven capability in analyzing system bottlenecks and optimizing algorithms, memory usage, and CPU consumption.
- Expertise in defining, implementing, and reviewing performance KPIs, SLOs, and benchmarking strategies for large-scale networking and security platforms.
- Ability to work independently with high ownership while effectively collaborating across teams.
Additional Skills:
What We Can Offer You:
Health & Wellbeing
We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.
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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EngineeringJob Level:
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