Staff Software Engineer

Role Overview

As a Staff Software Engineer at HPE, you will lead the design and development of scalable, resilient, and high-performance L2/L3 control plane software. You will work on complex networking protocols and system-level bugs, and partner with Hardware/ASIC teams and QA teams to drive automated, scale-focused testing strategies.

What You Will 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.

Why It Might Be a Fit

This role requires 10+ years of experience in networking software development, with a proven track record of shipping major features in products like Junos, IOS-XR, or EOS. You will need to have expert-level C/C++ and Python skills in a multi-threaded, multi-core Linux or FreeBSD environment.

Requirements

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
• 10+ years of experience in networking software development
• Expert-level C/C++ and Python skills in a multi-threaded, multi-core Linux or FreeBSD environment
• Experience in one or more of the following: Layer 2 and Layer 3 protocols, multicast (IGMP/MLD), Broadband Edge protocols (DHCP/PPPoE/L2TP), routing protocols, VPN/VXLAN, HTTP redirect, CoS, Firewall

Benefits

• Health & Wellbeing
• Personal & Professional Development
• Unconditional Inclusion