StaffSoftwareEngineer

Staff Software Engineer This 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. *