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Staff Software Engineer at HPE in Bengaluru. This role has been designed as 'Onsite' with an expectation that you will primarily work 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.
Job Responsibility
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
Requirements
Education: BS/MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
Experience: 10+ years of experience in networking software development
Core Systems Programming: Expert-level C/C++ and Python skills in a multi-threaded, multi-core Linux or FreeBSD environment
Control Plane Depth: Software development experience in one or more of these: Layer 2 and Layer 3 protocols, multicast (IGMP/MLD), Broadband Edge protocols (DHCP/PPPoE/L2TP), routing protocols, VPN/VXLAN, HTTP redirect, CoS, Firewall
Experience in implementation of above protocols/services on Broadcom DNX platforms (J2, J2C, Q2C) is a strong plus
OS Internals: Deep knowledge of IPC mechanisms, memory management, and high-availability (HA) synchronization in distributed systems
Nice to have
Experience with P4 or programming network processors (NPUs/ASICs) like Broadcom Jericho/Tomahawk or Juniper Trio
Experience with modern 'Cloud-Native' networking, including containerized network functions (CNFs) and gRPC-based telemetry