Staff Software Engineer, Application Services

Staff Software Engineer, Application Services

This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

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.

The engineering team works on a highly scalable, distributed SDWAN application that is AI-Driven. You will have the chance to create and implement inventive solutions for the architectural complexities involved in intelligent path routing. You will actively work on project teams with other highly skilled engineers involved in the software development for WAN Assurance – A hyper-scalable cloud AIOps platform. Day to day activities will involve crafting new features, understanding features in a results-oriented product, and proposing solutions that work for our platforms, writing functional and design specifications, programming, unit and integration testing your code, helping review specifications and code for other software engineers on the team, and helping documentation team with the configuration aspects of your features.

You will work 2 days per week at our Westford, MA office location.

About the Role

• A Linux-based networking platform using DPDK for the data plane which ingests and forwards traffic from some of the largest companies in the world.
• Network software running on a hardware appliance that provides zero touch connectivity to the Mist-managed network and SD-WAN functions
• Control plane systems which allow customers to simply express complex network configurations

Responsibilities

• Drive development from technology selection to product delivery, collaborating with product managers and product designers all along the way to give our users the best possible experience
• Identify and improve the efficiency, scalability, operability of the product
• Participate in design and code reviews
• Guiding on technical design
• Remain deeply connected with our customers - work with field engineers to understand, triage, and help with issues always with a mind toward product improvement

Qualifications

• B.S or M.S. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field
• 10+ years experience developing large-scale software systems
• 3+ years of experience building and leading technical teams
• Solid C/C++ developer and debugging skills
• Ability to deliver clean, modular code quickly and efficiently
• Experience building and shipping large-scale, reliable, highly distributed systems
• Expertise in L2, L3, and/or L4 networking protocols
• Excellent debugging and optimization skills
• Attention to detail and ability to solve complex customer problems
• Own solutions end-to-end and driving the design, development, and deployment process
• Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
• Through understanding of IP networking and socket-based programming
• High degree of competency working with multi-threaded development
• Experience developing on Linux operating systems
• Strong communication skills, both in written and verbal, to effectively understand and convey issues and solutions to peers and end users.
• Experience with Test Automation
• Experience with Agile development process
• Experience with Test-Driven Development and Continuous Integration

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Additional Skills: Cloud Architectures, Cross Domain Knowledge, Design Thinking, Development Fundamentals, DevOps, Distributed Computing, Microservices Fluency, Full Stack Development, Security-First Mindset, Solutions Design, Testing & Automation, User Experience (UX)

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.