Principal Software and Solutions Test Engineer

Principal Software Engineer- SDETThis role has been designed as ‘’Onsite’ with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE office.

Job Description:

What you will do :

HPE Cloud Ready Datacenter Networking team is looking for a Principal Software and Solutions Test Engineer with expertise in Datacenter Networking and capable of designing, implementing, operating large scale networking datacenter.

• Lead Software Development and Solution Testing efforts for Cloud Native products, Networking protocols, obsessed with quality first mindset and solve Datacenter networking problems leveraging large scale automation tools such as AI Agents and Co-pilots.
• Designs, develops, troubleshoots and debugs Datacenter networking implementations for enhancements and new products.
• Participates in software architecture reviews, be a subject matter expert driving customer requirements throughout all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle. Contributions have visible technical impact on a product or major subcomponent.  Applies in-depth professional knowledge and innovative ideas to solve complex problems. Visible contributions improve time-to-market, achieve cost reductions, or satisfy current and future unmet customer needs.
• Recognize internal authority on key technology area applying innovative principles and ideas.
• Provides technical leadership for significant project/program work. Leads or participates in cross-functional initiatives and contributes to mentorship and knowledge sharing across the organization.

What you need to bring:

Required Qualifications:

• B.Tech or M.Tech in Computer Science or related major.
• Minimum 10 years hands on experience in designing, building and troubleshooting large scale datacenter networks.
• Expertise in designing and solving problems involving Datacenter Networking Protocols, Distributed systems, Cloud Native software development, Microservices, Infrastructure as a code.
• Strong hands on experience in TCP/IP networking stack and Datacenter Networking Protocols such as EVPN/VXLAN, BGP.
• Writing high quality automation code in languages such as Python, Golang, Java, C or C++ to perform Testability, Observability, Debuggability for Cloud and On-prem software solutions.
• Expertise in Virtual Infrastructure Management Softwares like KVM, Openstack, Kubernetes, VMWare, etc. and able to bring up complex on-demand virtual networking topologies on them.
• Proficiency in working with infrastructure components like Cassandra, RabbitMQ, Elastic Search, Docker, Prometheus, Grafana.
• Familiar with problems in operating large scale software and hardware systems and able to drive solutions.
• Write code, automate the testcases and integrate them to CI/CD pipeline for continuous execution and quality management.
• Obsession in customer success by building and automating lean test frameworks constantly pushing quality bar.
• Define and strengthen quality gates and be a gate keeper for production pushes for weekly releases.
• Attention to details and implement monitoring infrastructure for Hyperscale Infrastructure using stacks such as Open telemetry, leveraging monitoring tools such as Datadog, Signoz.
• Be subject matter expert and participate in architectural discussions and involve in architectural decision making along with cross functional stakeholders.
• Partner with Engineering Managers and mentor junior engineers and bring them up to speed in technology expertise. 
• Curios to learn and stay on top of latest technology and tooling advancements and stay humble and drive initiatives to solve customer problems. Always have a view of top 5 high impact problems affecting the area of work and have 1-2 solutions.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in AI Datacenter Networking protocols such as RDMA, RoCEv2, Infiniband and understanding of Ultra Ethernet Consortium goals.
• Familiarity with AI/ML and AI Agentic frameworks and tools such as LangChain, FastAPI and able to demonstrate 2-3 use-cases where they can be applied in solving Datacenter Networking problem solving.
• Have external citations on technical papers, participate in technical community forums, have active participation in professional organizations such as IEEE.

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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Job:

Engineering

Job Level:

TCP_05

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