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Principal System Software Engineer

Hewlett Packard Enterprise
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 21 Jan 2026
💰 $260,500/yr($136,500/yr$260,500/yr)

About the role

Principal System Software Engineer

  

This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week 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:

   

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 office in Westford MA.

About the Role

  • Contribute to the design and develop large-scale, distributed systems and scalable real time, fault tolerant, high throughput message and event driven services.

  • Network software running on a hardware appliance that provides zero touch connectivity to the Mist-managed network and SD-WAN functions

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

Qualifications

  • B.S or M.S. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field

  • 7+ years of experience developing large-scale software systems

  • Solid C++, Python and/or Go developer and debugging skills

  • Experience developing on Linux operating systems

  • Ability to deliver clean, modular code quickly and efficiently

  • Experience building and shipping large-scale, reliable, highly distributed systems

  • Excellent debugging and optimization skills

  • Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, problem solving, and complexity analysis

  • High degree of competency working with multi-threaded development

  • Strong communication skills, both in written and verbal, to effectively understand and convey issues and solutions to peers and end users.

  • Familiarity with Robot framework

  • Experience with Test-Driven Development and Continuous Integration 

  • Own solutions end-to-end and driving the design, development, and deployment process

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 hav

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